Re: [asterisk-users] STIR/SHAKEN

2021-03-11 Thread John Millican

Sebastian,
There are many reasons why someone would want the DIDs provided by one 
provider and outbound calls to go out via 1,2 3, or more providers.
In one of my installs I have a situation where local calls are placed 
via a local telco switch but LD calls go out via a voip provider.  The 
Local telco has the DID but the LD does not so I have to verify the DIDs 
with the Voip provider(s).

Another case may be for least cost routing.
There are other reasons but you can see that it is not always as simple 
as using the same provider for DID and origination.

Thanks,
John

On 3/11/21 3:34 PM, Sebastian Nielsen wrote:


I reallt don’t understand why people simply use the same operator to 
terminate your calls, which also provide DIDs for you.


Then you don’t need to touch this at all, your carrier will do all the 
STIR/SHAKEN handling for you, you are just a PBX customer.


And then the operator then simply limits your account to only present 
your DID as outgoing number.


Seems to be a unneccesary complicated solution just to have your 
numbers at company 1 and have your call termination at company 2.


So fricking unneccessary.

What I know there is requirements of number portability, so as long as 
company 2 can handle DIDs (ergo ”own” DIDs) you should be able to move 
your DIDs from company 1 to company 2 – then company 2 owns your DIDs.


Best regards, Sebastian Nielsen

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Hi Jeff.  What exactly do you mean by the 'inbound piece'?  I've spent 
quite a lot of time with the folks at TILTX understanding the 
framework; but I am not exactly sure what you mean by the 'inbound piece.


Greg/Doug, like many folks here, we use LCR.  So, the terminating 
carrier is not necessarily the one that issued us the telephone 
numbers.  So, they will not sign it or simply cannot sign it.  
Remember that a very limited number of companies can actually sign the 
calls; the rest have to buy it from these 'Service Providers'.


And there is another situation - the company you purchase your numbers 
from and the company you place your calls through may be different and 
both may not be able to sign your calls.  Again, a very limited number 
of service providers that can actually sign your calls. So what do you 
do in that scenario?  You have to find a Service Provider that can:


1.  Verify you own that telephone number(s).

2.  Sign your calls.

3.  Provide you with the technical means to do so.

So, that's that...  I hope this makes sense.

Alex




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Re: [asterisk-users] Replying to Posts

2014-03-15 Thread John Millican


On 03/13/2014 01:13 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:

-1
Prefer top posting.
Easy to see if I want to scroll down to see if it is something 
interesting to me.

I get a lot of e-mails each day and scrolling wastes too much time.

But if you have a solution to a problem that I raise, please feel free 
to post it anywhere you like.



On 13/03/2014 11:33 AM, A J Stiles wrote:
(If you want to reply to this message, this is not where your reply 
goes)



Please, for the benefit of anyone reading the archives in search of 
answers to
a question, when replying to messages on this list, can everyone try 
to follow
the natural flow of conversation?  That is, position your reply 
*AFTER* the
thing you are replying to, not before it.  You may remove quoted 
material in
order to keep the message size down, but please leave enough of it to 
preserve

context.

(If you want to reply to a point made in the preceding paragraph, 
this is

where your reply goes)


If you need to make a point-by-point argument, split up your reply --
inserting artificial paragraph breaks into the quoted material, if 
necessary --

so each section of your reply follows the point it is addressing.

(If you want to reply to a point made in the preceding paragraph, or the
message as a whole, this is where your reply goes)





This war comes up often, too often!  Good manors are becoming a thing of 
the past and this is a sad thing in my opinion.  It has been my 
experience that most people on this list prefer the older tried and 
tested method of bottom posting.  Makes it better for people who find 
the post later while googleing a problem they are having.  Question 
before answers.  If you feel that you do not have enough time to take 
the 1 maybe two seconds to scroll to the bottom of a post, you are way 
to busty and need to re-prioritize you activities.   Obviously this is 
just my opinion, take or leave it, your choice.

Thank You,
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Phone -> NAT/FIREWALL -> Internet -> NAT/Firewall-> Asterisk

2014-01-02 Thread John Millican
Adam,
Thanks, I will try that this afternoon.
JohnM

On 01/02/2014 11:31 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
> top posting is superior anyway --- *ducking to avoid thrown objects*
> 
> If I recall correctly, when doing something like that with a polycom I
> had to set the registration interval absurdly low, like 20 seconds or
> something.  I think the Polycom didn't send keepalives and that was the
> workaround.
> 
> 
>> top posting so as to not make thread even more confusing.
>>
>> Nick,
>> I have nat=force_rport,comedia in sip.conf.  It is my understanding that
>> nat=yes is deprecated?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JohnM
>>
>>
>> On 01/02/2014 10:51 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
>>> Make sure you have nat=yes in your sip.conf either under globals or
>>> individual sip peer settings.
>>>
>>> Nick Olsen
>>> Network Operations
>>> (855) FLSPEED  x106
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>> *From*: "John Millican" 
>>> *Sent*: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:50 AM
>>> *To*: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>>> 
>>> *Subject*: [asterisk-users] Phone -> NAT/FIREWALL -> Internet ->
>>> NAT/Firewall-> Asterisk
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> CentOS 6.x and Asterisk 11.x
>>> I have an interesting, to me at least, situation. Using a Polycom
>>> 501(also tried with X-Lite). I have set up Asterisk to accept
>>> registration from the Polycom and it registers successfully but then
>>> withing 30 seconds on the CLI I get the message that the Polycom is
>>> unreachable. The phone still shows that it is registered and if I try
>>> to place a call from the phone to my Cell, my cell rings once and then
>>> stops. I get a packet retransmission error:
>>> WARNING[1303]: chan_sip.c:4174 retrans_pkt: Retransmission timeout
>>> reached on transmission 689874757@192.168.0.100 for seqno 2 (Critical
>>> Response)
>>> Followed by:
>>> n_sip.c:4203 retrans_pkt: Hanging up call xx@192.168.0.100 - no
>>> reply to our critical packet
>>> I am "assuming" that there is a problem with NAT. I have externip set
>>> in sip.conf.
>>> Any pointers to what I am missing?
>>> Thanks,
>>> JohnM
>>>
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Re: [asterisk-users] Phone -> NAT/FIREWALL -> Internet -> NAT/Firewall-> Asterisk

2014-01-02 Thread John Millican
top posting so as to not make thread even more confusing.

Nick,
I have nat=force_rport,comedia in sip.conf.  It is my understanding that
nat=yes is deprecated?

Thanks,
JohnM


On 01/02/2014 10:51 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:
> Make sure you have nat=yes in your sip.conf either under globals or
> individual sip peer settings.
> 
> Nick Olsen
> Network Operations
> (855) FLSPEED  x106
> 
> 
> 
> ----
> *From*: "John Millican" 
> *Sent*: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:50 AM
> *To*: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> 
> *Subject*: [asterisk-users] Phone -> NAT/FIREWALL -> Internet ->
> NAT/Firewall-> Asterisk
> 
> Hello,
> CentOS 6.x and Asterisk 11.x
> I have an interesting, to me at least, situation. Using a Polycom
> 501(also tried with X-Lite). I have set up Asterisk to accept
> registration from the Polycom and it registers successfully but then
> withing 30 seconds on the CLI I get the message that the Polycom is
> unreachable. The phone still shows that it is registered and if I try
> to place a call from the phone to my Cell, my cell rings once and then
> stops. I get a packet retransmission error:
> WARNING[1303]: chan_sip.c:4174 retrans_pkt: Retransmission timeout
> reached on transmission 689874757@192.168.0.100 for seqno 2 (Critical
> Response)
> Followed by:
> n_sip.c:4203 retrans_pkt: Hanging up call xx@192.168.0.100 - no
> reply to our critical packet
> I am "assuming" that there is a problem with NAT. I have externip set
> in sip.conf.
> Any pointers to what I am missing?
> Thanks,
> JohnM
> 
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[asterisk-users] Phone -> NAT/FIREWALL -> Internet -> NAT/Firewall-> Asterisk

2014-01-02 Thread John Millican
Hello,
CentOS 6.x and Asterisk 11.x
I have an interesting, to me at least, situation.  Using a Polycom
501(also tried with X-Lite). I have set up Asterisk to accept
registration from the Polycom and it registers successfully but then
withing 30 seconds on the CLI I get the message that the Polycom is
unreachable.  The phone still shows that it is registered and if I try
to place a call from the phone to my Cell, my cell rings once and then
stops.  I get a packet retransmission error:
WARNING[1303]: chan_sip.c:4174 retrans_pkt: Retransmission timeout
reached on transmission 689874757@192.168.0.100 for seqno 2 (Critical
Response)
Followed by:
n_sip.c:4203 retrans_pkt: Hanging up call xx@192.168.0.100 - no
reply to our critical packet
I am "assuming" that there is a problem with NAT.  I have externip set
in sip.conf.
Any pointers to what I am missing?
Thanks,
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk on Windows

2013-12-04 Thread John Millican
On 12/04/2013 11:00 AM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On 13-12-04 10:19 AM, CDR wrote:
>> Digium is 100% lost in the map. If they would come up with a Paid
>> version of Asterisk, one that would use the .NET framework in Windows,
>> something simple to install, they could go public on the product.
>> Linux has a very steep learning curve. A Windows application that
>> would do exactly the same would be a home run. Note: I am a Linux
>> expert user, but it took me years to get here. And still, moving from
>> regular RHEL 6.0 to Fedora 20 (RHEL 7) is a pain in the neck. The .NET
>> framework and Windows server 2012 are miles away in terms of
>> friendliness and on equal footing on performance. I don´t mean another
>> slow cygwin port, I man a native Asterisk for windows. In fact, I
>> would invest on the project if somebody wants to do it.
>>
> Do you just sit around and think shit up to blame Digium all day?
>
Normally I do not respond to trolls but...

If you want an Asterisk version to run on Windows, go for it.  You are
free to create it yourself.  Most of the folks on this list realize the
Asterisk on Windows is a huge mistake.  If you really believe that this
is such a good idea, go for it and become a bazillionare from your
work.  Then you can come back and say "I told you so".  Until then take
the advise of the many good folks on this list that collectively have
many decades of experience and run asterisk on Linux.
Regards,
JohnM

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[asterisk-users] POTS(FXO) line getting Red alarm after first ring(5 or 6 seconds)

2012-04-26 Thread John Millican

Hello,
I have an OpenVox A400E02 (2FXO) in a box running Debian 6.0.2 running 
Asterisk 1.8.6.0.  I have to POTS line on it from Verizon in Virginia, 
USA.  Whenever I place a call to one of the two lines I get a red alam 
and then it clears and repeats this till I hang up.  There is no caller 
ID on the Line (boss won't pay for it).

Any help is most appreciated.
TIA,
JohnM

lspci relevent output:
08:00.0 Network controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN 
interface


cat /proc/interrupts:
19:  54390 1286431613   IO-APIC-fasteoi   wctdm
(no shared interupts)

dahdi show channels
   Chan Extension  Context Language   MOH Interpret
BlockedState
 pseudodefault
default In Service
  1altrurstn  
default In Service
  2altrurstn  
default In Service


PBX1:/home/jmillican# dahdi_cfg -vvv
DAHDI Tools Version - 2.5.0.1

DAHDI Version: 2.5.0.1
Echo Canceller(s): HWEC, MG2
Configuration
==

Channel map:

Channel 01: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 01)
Channel 02: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 02)

2 channels to configure.

Setting echocan for channel 1 to mg2
Setting echocan for channel 2 to mg2


in chan_dahdi.conf
[channels]
context=altrurstn
signalling=fxs_ks
rxwink=300
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=yes
usecallingpres=yes
callwaitingcallerid=yes
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
canpark=yes
cancallforward=yes
callreturn=yes
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=no
faxdetect=incoming
echotraining=800
rxgain=0.0
txgain=0.0
callgroup=1
pickupgroup=1

immediate=no

#include dahdi_additional.conf
#include dahdi-channels.conf

in dahdi-channels.conf
; Span 1: WCTDM/4 "Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F Board 5" (MASTER)
;;; line="1 WCTDM/4/0"
signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=altrurstn
channel => 1
callerid=
group=
context=altrurstn

;;; line="2 WCTDM/4/1"
signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=altrurstn
channel => 2
callerid=
group=
context=altrurstn

/etc/dahdi/modules loads only wctdm.

/etc/dahdi/system.conf:
fxsks=1
echocanceller=mg2,1
fxsks=2
echocanceller=mg2,2

Relevent Extensions.conf:
[altrurstn-in]

exten => s,1,Wait(1);
exten => s,n,Set(CDR(accountcode)=fromoustide)
exten => s,n,Set(CDR(userfield)=POTS-${EXTEN})
exten => s,n,GoTo(999,1);

exten => 999,1,Answer();
exten => 999,n,NoOp(${CALLERID(all)});
exten => 999,n,wait(1);
exten => 999,n,Set(foo=0);
exten => 999,n,Set(count=0);
exten => 999,n,Read(foo,0001&0002,4,,,2);
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${foo}"="9"]?directory);
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${foo}"="0"]?oper)
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${foo})}" < "4"]?restart:altrurstn,${foo},1);
exten => 999,n(restart),Set(COUNT=$[${COUNT} + 1]);
exten => 999,n,NoOp(${COUNT});
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${COUNT}" > "1"]?oper:continue);
exten => 999,n(continue),Read(foo,0002,4,,,2);
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${foo}"="9"]?directory);
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${foo}"="0"]?oper)
exten => 999,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${foo})}"<"4"]?restart:altrurstn,${foo},1);
exten => 999,n(oper),GoTo(0,1);
exten => 999,n(directory),Directory(default,altrurstn,p(500));
exten => 999,n,Hangup();

What I get in the CLI:
[Apr 26 19:26:53] -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
[Apr 26 19:26:53] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:1] Wait("DAHDI/1-1", 
"1") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:2] Set("DAHDI/1-1", 
"CDR(accountcode)=fromoustide") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:3] Set("DAHDI/1-1", 
"CDR(userfield)=POTS-s") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:4] Goto("DAHDI/1-1", 
"999,1") in new stack

[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Goto (altrurstn-in,999,1)
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [999@altrurstn-in:1] 
Answer("DAHDI/1-1", "") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [999@altrurstn-in:2] 
NoOp("DAHDI/1-1", """ <>") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:54] -- Executing [999@altrurstn-in:3] 
Wait("DAHDI/1-1", "1") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:26:55] WARNING[11189]: chan_dahdi.c:7728 handle_alarms: 
Detected alarm on channel 1: Red Alarm
[Apr 26 19:26:55]   == Spawn extension (altrurstn-in, 999, 3) exited 
non-zero on 'DAHDI/1-1'

[Apr 26 19:26:55] -- Hanging up on 'DAHDI/1-1'
[Apr 26 19:26:55] -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
[Apr 26 19:26:58] NOTICE[11159]: sig_analog.c:3709 
analog_handle_init_event: Alarm cleared on channel 1

[Apr 26 19:26:59] -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
[Apr 26 19:26:59] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:1] Wait("DAHDI/1-1", 
"1") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:27:00] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:2] Set("DAHDI/1-1", 
"CDR(accountcode)=fromoustide") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:27:00] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:3] Set("DAHDI/1-1", 
"CDR(userfield)=POTS-s") in new stack
[Apr 26 19:27:00] -- Executing [s@altrurstn-in:4] Goto("D

[asterisk-users] using AMI and Telnet to place calls

2012-03-01 Thread John Millican

Hello,
I am using a perl script to pull call info from a DB and place calls via 
telnet and AMI, all on local machine of course.  My problem is that I 
need to capture any response from the carier, such as this taht appears 
in the CLI:

[Mar  1 12:55:50]   == Using SIP RTP CoS mark 5
[Mar  1 12:55:50] -- Got SIP response 503 "No Circuit Available" 
back from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060

[Mar  1 12:55:50] > Channel SIP/ was never answered
and be able to relate that back to the dialed number for that call.  Is 
this possible?
I am using async in the AMI command.   Do I need to do something such as 
adding and event id to the AMI originate action then listen for response 
from AMI?

Obviously I am a bit lost here.
Thanks for any pointers toward the solution.
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Capture sip Response

2012-02-27 Thread John Millican

Hello,
I am using a mix of Call files and AMI telnet from a perl app to place 
calls.  I sometimes get this in the CLI:


 -- Attempting call on sip/551234@for 1@:1 
(Retry 1)

[Feb 27 13:47:07]   == Using SIP RTP CoS mark 5
[Feb 27 13:47:07] -- Got SIP response 503 "No Circuit Available" 
back from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060

[Feb 27 13:47:07] > Channel SIP/ was never answered.

I would like to be able to capture the "Got SIP response 503 "No Circuit 
Available" back from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060"  line in a var to be used by 
a perl AGI that inserts to a mongoDB for reporting.  Is this possible?  
I have read many articles about using hangupcause and siphangupcause but 
they do not provide the same information I believe because the call was 
never answered so hangup does not apply.


TIA,
JohnM

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Re: [asterisk-users] A new hack?

2011-12-02 Thread john Millican

On 12/2/2011 12:44 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Jim Lucas wrote:

How is using Fail2Ban less resource intensive then me writing (by 
hand) iptable rules?


It depends on how you define resources and how much of those resources 
you have.


Gordon (based on my understanding of his posts) does a lot of Asterisk 
systems on very limited hardware hosts. His approach uses iptables 
features to limit the number of SIP INVITES and REGISTERS per second 
per IP address.


Thus, Gordon's approach is more responsive (since it doesn't require 
periodic log file scanning) and requires less hardware resources 
(since it doesn't depend on running relatively 'slothish' resource 
intensive script interpreters like Perl or PHP periodically).


If you have limited admin skills and more hardware resources, F2B 
makes sense.


If you have more admin skills and limited hardware resources, Gordon's 
approach makes more sense.


Personally, I find any approach that tracks log files 'hackish' but if 
you centralize your logging (which I always do) it does allow you to 
detect patterns of abuse across multiple hosts.



Now this, I would say was very well put.
As always, just my opinion.
JohnM

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Re: [asterisk-users] A new hack?

2011-11-29 Thread john Millican



On 11/29/2011 12:48 PM, C F wrote:

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tom Browning  wrote:

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Gordon Henderson
  wrote:

Linux has excellent built-in subsystems to control firewalling and so on
without resorting to external programs. It's called iptables. If you know
how to use them, then using an external resource such as fail2ban is
unneccessary.

That's like saying you don't need FreePBX because you have this thing
called Asterisk.

Very well put.

--

This may well turn out to just be troll fodder but I can not resist.
I disagree with the above being very well put, personally I think it is 
the opposite of well put. Maybe I am misunderstanding the gist of the 
comment but, I do not NEED FreePBX, I have Asterisk makes perfect sense 
to me.  I have been using asterisk for a few years now and have not yet 
found anything that I need to do with Asterisk that I must have FreePBX 
to accomplish.  Could I do the same things with FreePBX on top of 
Asterisk, maybe.  I am not an expert in iptables but I have been semi 
successful in adapting what others have done to fit my needs.  I have 
found this to work better FOR ME than Fail2ban. I have used and will 
continue to use Fail2ban for other purposes because I am not an iptables 
expert.  In my opinion one should find the tools that work best for you 
in your situation and use them.  You may well change your mind in the 
future but that is the beauty of this industry, it changes all the time, 
what I feel works best today may well not be what I think works best 
tomorrow as new tools are developed and proven and also as I become more 
experianced with the old tried and true tools.

As usual, just my 2 cents (US currency, exchange rates not compensated for)
JohnM

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Re: [asterisk-users] Recommendations

2011-11-28 Thread john Millican



On 11/28/2011 3:35 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:


If you put a gun to my head I would say to stay with Centos 5 and 
either 1.4.42 or 10.0.0-rc2.  10.0.0-rc2 removes a "feature" that was 
killing me in 1.4, but if you aren't doing IVR stuff, you can stay 
with what you know.  Another thing to consider though; 1.4.8 is prior 
to the Zaptel-to-Dahdi conversion so that might cause you some "joy".


*From:*asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com 
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Todd 
Routhier

*Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 2:31 PM
*To:* asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
*Subject:* [asterisk-users] Recommendations

I am currently running Asterisk 1.4.8 and have been for quite a while, 
it has served me well.


Getting ready to build a new box to replace the existing installation 
of Asterisk.


My primary use of the Asterisk box is run queues. I am sure the queue 
features and functionality have been updated, expanded since 1.4.8 and 
I am wondering what version of Ast you guys would recommend. Looking 
for the best version in terms of queue features, functionality.


Also, an OS recommendation would be great. Been running on CentOS 
forever and no reason to want to change. Just looking for the best 
version of CentOS to run the best/stable version of Asterisk on.


To be clear:

Recommended:

Asterisk Version:

OS & Version:

I am even thinking about using AsteriskNow, don't need the FreePBX but 
I have worked with it before and it used to be possible to still do 
custom stuff and co-exist with FreePBX. I like having FreePBX 
available for the simple stuff so it's not a bad thing if it's there. 
Does it have an intergrated web server that I could run a lightweight 
control panel on? That would be another plus.


Thanks in advance for any help, been out of touch for a while. I will 
be doing my research and lots of reading over the next few days but 
thought it couldn't hurt to see what the general consensus is on these 
topics.




Danny,
Can you expand on what "feature" 10.0.0-rc2 removed that was causing you 
problems with IVR?  I am starting to undertake some major IVR scripting 
so am rather curious.

Thanks,
JohnM

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Re: [asterisk-users] Maybe slightly OT but..

2011-10-11 Thread john Millican
Thanks to all for the responses.  Boss calls overseas a lot and has an 
"unlimited" data plan, so this coupled with the rates that we get for 
our VoIP calls it is much cheaper than what Verizon charges.

JohnM

On 10/11/2011 1:29 AM, Jeremy Kister wrote:

On 10/10/2011 10:08 PM, Andres wrote:

I would recommend Acrobits.  Not free but only a few bucks.  It works
fine with ATT 3G.


+1

only thing i like better is it's big brother, Groundwire



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[asterisk-users] Maybe slightly OT but..

2011-10-10 Thread john Millican

Hello all,
Does anyone know of a good free/inexpensive 3G SIP client for the 
iPhone?  If anyone is using one that works good for them could you 
please let me know.

Thank You,
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Re: [asterisk-users] AMI Commands - not working as Expected, Maybe???

2011-08-16 Thread john Millican





On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:42 AM, john Millican <mailto:j...@millican.us>> wrote:


On 8/15/2011 5:48 PM, john Millican wrote:

Hello,
Asterisk 1.4.38
Linux version 2.6.9-89.31.1.EL   CentOS

Trying to get variables into a dial plan from AMI.  I have
tried all sorts of combinations,entering them after making a
connection to ami through telnet, of the many available
examples on voip-info.org <http://voip-info.org> such as:
Action: Originate
Channel: sip/xx@xxx
MaxRetries: 2
RetryTime: 60
WaitTime: 30
Context: test1
Exten: acs1
Priority: 1
CallerID: xx
Account: MyTest
Command: Set(var1=123456)
Command: Set(var2=54321)

also tried:
Var:
Variable:
SetVar:

Each individually for the two variables I need and both on the
same line separated by a | or a ,
Always when I hit return twice to give the \r\n\r\n  The call
is successful but where I have
exten => acs1,n,NoOp(Vars = ${var1}, ${var2});
in my dialplan what I get is:
[2011-08-15 17:20:28] -- Executing [acs1@test1:2]
NoOp("SIP/xxx-0451", "Vars = | ") in new stack
Obviously not what I was hoping for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
JohnM


Ok so I figured it out, It was me being dumb!
Proper format is indeed:
Variable: var1=23456|var2=246810
which I would have sworn I tried and it failed but, I started at
the beginning again and voila!


JohnM


Un top posting for readability
On 8/16/2011 8:33 AM, Amol Vedak wrote:

Hi John,

I kind of facing the same problem that you were facing.
I am using similar configuration as you are for asterisk.
I am using java-asterisk library to communicate with asterisk.
In my code I am setting two variables (PIN, MREQID) and trying to 
access them in dialplan (dialplan shown below).
When I send command to Asterisk to orginate, I get following result 
(result shown below). I am wondering how should get access to 
individual variable data. I was wondering if I should use Set(var,x,y) 
method to pull out the part which is necessary for me. But wasnt sure 
if thats the right way.


RESULT
 -- Executing [login@authcheckrohan:5] 
Set("SIP/softphonerohan-0060", "PIN=3408|MREQID=1") in new stack
[Aug 16 17:53:06] WARNING[15739]: pbx.c:1344 pbx_exec: The application 
delimiter is now the comma, not the pipe.  Did you forget to convert 
your dialplan?  (Set(PIN=3408|MREQID=1))
-- Executing [login@authcheckrohan:6] 
Set("SIP/softphonerohan-0060", "MREQID=") in new stack



DIALPLAN
exten => login,1,NoOp();
;exten => login,n,SayNumber(${PIN})
exten => login,n,Set(E=${PIN})
exten => login,n,Verbose(${${E}_PIN})
exten => login,n,Verbose(${E})
exten => login,n,Set(PIN=${PIN})
exten => login,n,Set(MREQID=${MREQID})
exten => login,n,SayNumber(${MREQID})

Have you done it differently?

Thanks & Regards,
Amol


I am connecting to the AMI from a C# app that was built by others but I 
am using the same information and format as is used for a standard 
telnet connection.  What eneded up working is sending Variable: 
var1=|var2=x|var3= as the last element(I do not think it is 
important that it be last though).  This is how it ended up in C# after 
having established the connection:

//Tell asterisk who to call and to connect them to the IVR
   clientSocket.Send(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Action: 
Originate\r\nChannel: sip/" + phoneNum1 + "@\r\nMaxRetries: 
2\r\nRetryTime: 60\r\nWaitTime: 30\r\nContext: l\r\nExten: 
\r\nPriority: 1\r\nCallerid: XX\r\nAccount: Accountcode>\r\nVariable: var1=" + memberNum +"|var2=" + phoneNum1 + 
"|var3=" + phoneNum2 + "\r\n\r\n"));


Then in my Dialplan I just use ${var1} ,${var2} , and ${var3}  where I 
need them.


Hope this helps.
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Re: [asterisk-users] AMI Commands - not working as Expected, Maybe???

2011-08-15 Thread john Millican

On 8/15/2011 5:48 PM, john Millican wrote:

Hello,
Asterisk 1.4.38
Linux version 2.6.9-89.31.1.EL   CentOS

Trying to get variables into a dial plan from AMI.  I have tried all 
sorts of combinations,entering them after making a connection to ami 
through telnet, of the many available examples on voip-info.org such as:

Action: Originate
Channel: sip/xx@xxx
MaxRetries: 2
RetryTime: 60
WaitTime: 30
Context: test1
Exten: acs1
Priority: 1
CallerID: xx
Account: MyTest
Command: Set(var1=123456)
Command: Set(var2=54321)

also tried:
Var:
Variable:
SetVar:

Each individually for the two variables I need and both on the same 
line separated by a | or a ,
Always when I hit return twice to give the \r\n\r\n  The call is 
successful but where I have

exten => acs1,n,NoOp(Vars = ${var1}, ${var2});
in my dialplan what I get is:
[2011-08-15 17:20:28] -- Executing [acs1@test1:2] 
NoOp("SIP/xxx-0451", "Vars = | ") in new stack

Obviously not what I was hoping for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
JohnM



Ok so I figured it out, It was me being dumb!
Proper format is indeed:
Variable: var1=23456|var2=246810
which I would have sworn I tried and it failed but, I started at the 
beginning again and voila!


JohnM


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[asterisk-users] AMI Commands - not working as Expected, Maybe???

2011-08-15 Thread john Millican

Hello,
Asterisk 1.4.38
Linux version 2.6.9-89.31.1.EL   CentOS

Trying to get variables into a dial plan from AMI.  I have tried all 
sorts of combinations,entering them after making a connection to ami 
through telnet, of the many available examples on voip-info.org such as:

Action: Originate
Channel: sip/xx@xxx
MaxRetries: 2
RetryTime: 60
WaitTime: 30
Context: test1
Exten: acs1
Priority: 1
CallerID: xx
Account: MyTest
Command: Set(var1=123456)
Command: Set(var2=54321)

also tried:
Var:
Variable:
SetVar:

Each individually for the two variables I need and both on the same line 
separated by a | or a ,
Always when I hit return twice to give the \r\n\r\n  The call is 
successful but where I have

exten => acs1,n,NoOp(Vars = ${var1}, ${var2});
in my dialplan what I get is:
[2011-08-15 17:20:28] -- Executing [acs1@test1:2] 
NoOp("SIP/xxx-0451", "Vars = | ") in new stack

Obviously not what I was hoping for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Securing Asterisk

2011-07-28 Thread john millican

On 7/28/2011 11:31 AM, Bruce B wrote:

Hmmm, if alwaysauthreject is already breaking RFC rules then why not
break another rule for the greater good? It would only add another layer
of security.

Maybe: *alwaysregreject=yes*
*
*
*To drop SIP packets for both unauthorized registers and anonymous
calls. Keep it off by default and then allow users to turn it on if they
want to.

To be fair to OP, using Asterisk with open ports to the world is a legit
use of Asterisk even if most of us don't employ it that way or use it
solely with closed networks (VPN, etc...). There are many people who
would benefit from a security feature that would simply ignore
unauthorized registers and anonymous calls.

OP is suggesting an improvement to Asterisk; maybe people should weigh
options and see if it's time to act more on the security side or not.
There is no question that if a hacker knows there is a SIP server then
they will keep the IP on the list for later use or share it
with colleagues even if it seems secure right now. A DDoS is always a
possibility and that you can't save yourself from at all.

Right now the situation is more like this:

*Knock Knock:*
*Owner: *Whose there?
*Thief:* This is Mr. X from China, and I am here to steal your TV.
*Owner: *Hi, I am James Smith, 45, 190lbs and I have a nice laptop as
well but I am home now and I can't let you in.
*Thief (laughing):* No problem, I will come back at midnight when you
are sleeping :-)

- Bruce




What I didn't tell you Mr thief is I sleep very lightly, Have a shotgun, 
a shovel and 20 acres of back yard and I know how to use all three!


Why is there such an aversion to using the right tool for the job? 
Asterisk is not the security tool it is the voice tool!


JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Looking for actual user opinions on Telephony card

2011-02-08 Thread john millican

Hello all,
Just hoping to get some opinions from folks that have actually used the 
Rhino R4FXO-EC.  Looking for user experiences, good or bad.  This looks 
like a nice unit and I have a need for exactly this config, 4FXO and EC


TIA,
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] deadagi on v1.4.xx

2010-12-19 Thread John Millican

Hello all,
I have a perl script that updates a M$ SQL DB based on an ivr that is 
run on asterisk.

When it runs as a normal agi, it works great.

when run as a DeadAGI it does not work.

When i execute the script from h channel withDeadAGI and agi debug on i get:

[2010-12-20 01:08:54] -- Launched AGI Script 
/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/insert_10day_var.pl

[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_request: insert_10day_var.pl
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_channel: SIP/
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_language: en
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_type: SIP
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_uniqueid: 1292825277.243
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_callerid: 
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_calleridname: 
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_callingpres: 0
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_callingani2: 0
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_callington: 0
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_callingtns: 0
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_dnid: unknown
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_rdnis: unknown
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_context: 
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_extension: h
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_priority: 3
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_enhanced: 0.0
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >> agi_accountcode: in call file>

[2010-12-20 01:08:54] AGI Tx >>
[2010-12-20 01:08:54] -- AGI Script insert_10day_var.pl completed, 
returning 0


Which is identical to the debug output when it work from the live 
channel AGI


but I do not get the data in the db as it does when run by hand.
I am very tired, frustrated and have been googleing my butt of, no luck.

I know the script is getting the vars in as I had mistakenly left a 
print statement in, which of course caused the script to bail but it 
showed the correct info before it failed.


Could it be that even though it is running DeadAGI that there is a 
sighup killing the script?  if any suggestions on what to do about it?

AT:  http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+DeadAGI
I did see that in 1.2 even on a deadagi I might have to catch the sighup 
and it said


Your script will have to block SIGHUP signals, which you can do like so:

Perl:
 $SIG{HUP} = "IGNORE"

I tried this and now at least I get a status after the DeadAGI returns, 
which it did not get with out it.  Although the status is FAILURE.


Any suggestions?
Thanks,
JohnM




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[asterisk-users] Maybe a little OT??--- Obtaining DIDs in Hyderabad, India

2010-11-15 Thread john millican
Hello,
I originally thought I should post to the biz list but I am not looking 
for offers of DID's, I am looking for actual user 
experiences/information on obtaining a DID for an Office I am working 
with in Hyderabad, India.
Can anyone offer recommendations based on personal experience of where I 
might be able to obtain said DID?  This will be 90% inbound traffic and 
only within India.
If anyone feels strongly that I should have indeed posted this to the 
biz list, please accept my apologies but, I felt I would get more 
pertinent info here.  Based on this info I can then go to the biz list 
and ask for offers or straight to the discussed provider.
Thank You,
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Disa not fully bridging outbound call

2010-01-26 Thread John Millican
John Millican wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a situation where a remote worker dials in to the asterisk server, 
> enters
> the "secret code", then dials out via Disa on a PRI.  This was all working 
> great
> until this morning.  Now the calls is placed out, connected but there is no
> voice from/to either phone.  This is what shows on the CLI when the calls is
> bridged at a verbose of 4 and a debug of 1:
> [Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Moving call from channel 21 to channel 2
> [Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Zap/0:2-1 answered Zap/1-1
> [Jan 25 17:51:40] WARNING[5563]: chan_dahdi.c:1594 conf_add: Failed to add 20 
> to
> conference 9/1: Invalid argument
> [Jan 25 17:51:40] WARNING[5563]: chan_dahdi.c:1594 conf_add: Failed to add 20 
> to
> conference 9/1: Invalid argument
> [Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Native bridging Zap/1-1 and Zap/0:2-1
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Channel 0/1, span 1 got hangup request, cause 16
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Hungup 'Zap/0:2-1'
> [Jan 25 17:51:49]   == Spawn extension (from-inside-redir, 16037649936, 1)
> exited non-zero on 'Zap/1-1'
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Executing [...@from-inside-redir:1] 
> Hangup("Zap/1-1", "")
> in new stack
> [Jan 25 17:51:49]   == Spawn extension (from-inside-redir, h, 1) exited 
> non-zero
> on 'Zap/1-1'
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1'
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] WARNING[5412]: chan_dahdi.c:8615 pri_fixup_principle: Call
> specified, but not found?
> [Jan 25 17:51:49] WARNING[5412]: chan_dahdi.c:9759 pri_dchannel: Hangup on bad
> channel 0/2 on span 1
> 
> 
> This says it is using DAHDI but it is actually still Zaptel as I have not had
> much success getting DAHDI to work on OpenSuSE, but that is another post for a
> later date.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thank You
> 

As an FYI reply to my own post I was able to clear up the issue by rmmod and
restart of zaptel.  Not what I would call a good solution but it worked. Does
not tell me what caused the problem but at least the customer is happy for now.
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Disa not fully bridging outbound call

2010-01-25 Thread John Millican
Hello,
I have a situation where a remote worker dials in to the asterisk server, enters
the "secret code", then dials out via Disa on a PRI.  This was all working great
until this morning.  Now the calls is placed out, connected but there is no
voice from/to either phone.  This is what shows on the CLI when the calls is
bridged at a verbose of 4 and a debug of 1:
[Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Moving call from channel 21 to channel 2
[Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Zap/0:2-1 answered Zap/1-1
[Jan 25 17:51:40] WARNING[5563]: chan_dahdi.c:1594 conf_add: Failed to add 20 to
conference 9/1: Invalid argument
[Jan 25 17:51:40] WARNING[5563]: chan_dahdi.c:1594 conf_add: Failed to add 20 to
conference 9/1: Invalid argument
[Jan 25 17:51:40] -- Native bridging Zap/1-1 and Zap/0:2-1
[Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Channel 0/1, span 1 got hangup request, cause 16
[Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Hungup 'Zap/0:2-1'
[Jan 25 17:51:49]   == Spawn extension (from-inside-redir, 16037649936, 1)
exited non-zero on 'Zap/1-1'
[Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Executing [...@from-inside-redir:1] Hangup("Zap/1-1", 
"")
in new stack
[Jan 25 17:51:49]   == Spawn extension (from-inside-redir, h, 1) exited non-zero
on 'Zap/1-1'
[Jan 25 17:51:49] -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1'
[Jan 25 17:51:49] WARNING[5412]: chan_dahdi.c:8615 pri_fixup_principle: Call
specified, but not found?
[Jan 25 17:51:49] WARNING[5412]: chan_dahdi.c:9759 pri_dchannel: Hangup on bad
channel 0/2 on span 1


This says it is using DAHDI but it is actually still Zaptel as I have not had
much success getting DAHDI to work on OpenSuSE, but that is another post for a
later date.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank You

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Re: [asterisk-users] Send the same message to list of users

2009-11-19 Thread John Millican
David Gibbons wrote:
> 
> 
> Customers in Europe all have mobile phones, while senders in North
> America rarely have them ( they have answering machines, though ).
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> What planet/year are you/your clients living on/in? I don’t know anyone
> who doesn’t have a mobile. Maybe it’s just that they call it a cell
> phone instead of a mobile J
> 
>  
> 
> How could anyone possible consider themselves a serious business person
> without a cell phone? That’s laughable.
> 
>  
> 
> -Dave
> 
Planet Earth, third form the sun, Gregorian calender year of 2009

There are still vary large parts of the US that do not have cell coverage.  So
whether you want/need a cell/mobile or not is irrelevant. It is not so laughable
when you don't have a choice.
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] FW: hi Dan

2009-11-13 Thread John Millican
Joe Greco wrote:
>> Sorry, I can't resist.  
>>
>> How do I join the Mail List Nazi Corp?  Do I have to be invited, or can I
>> just self appoint myself?  Asking neophyte questions are objected to by
>> some, top posting by those who blast others, etc.  
>>
>> How about leaving member chastisement to the sponsor of the list?
> 
> That's unlikely to happen in most cases.
> 
>> Some people have no one within 250 miles of where they are to learn from or
>> learn better by working with code than reading inscrutable examples from
>> different versions, and other inanimate pages of examples that have "wrong"
>> variables, etc.  
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Nearly everyone can be criticized for something, Asking "dumb" questions,
>> top posting, bottom posting and leaving 3 pages of "crap" to scroll through,
>> answering questions that were answered 5 posts down, because they didn't
>> review the newer messages before posting, and more.
>>
>> Be charitable and kind.  Have a nice day.  
> 
> There's absolutely something to be said for that.  On the other hand,
> there is also something to be said for making people exhaust the
> available resources prior to solving their problems for them.  You 
> can even be charitable and kind while doing so...
> 
> Back in the '90's, I knew a really bright guy who knew Windows and
> Novell inside and out.  He was just learning UNIXy stuff (FreeBSD in
> particular) and he was discovering that there was a lot of application
> for the stuff.  He would frequently approach me, desperately seeking an
> answer to some general problem of some sort.  I would typically give
> relatively vague answers, ending up essentially with a "figure it out
> yourself."  This frustrated him to no end, but he would do so.  Later,
> he would come to me, almost always with a workable solution, at which
> point we would often discuss the ins and outs of several different
> options.  His solution wasn't always the *best*, but it would always
> serve as a foundation for the rest.
> 
> Years later, he thanked me.  At the time, he didn't really appreciate
> what I was doing and didn't see the bigger picture.  Looking back on
> it, I think he saw that I had always tried to aim him in a sensible
> direction before shoving him off on his own to figure it out.  He
> eventually grew confident enough and capable enough that he would no
> longer need to ask for help.
> 
> I can fix your problems for you, or I can teach you to be self-
> sufficient...  which one is doing you more of a favor?  It may seem
> more "charitable and kind" to simply give someone answers, but I do
> not think it actually is, at least in this sort of situation.
> 
> As for the original poster?  It's my impression, reading in between
> the lines, that he probably hasn't tried that hard.  Asterisk on Linux
> is pretty straightforward, and MOH is probably not that rough to get
> running.  On FreeBSD?  That's a different thing.  Bleh.  But it's still
> better to do it on-list rather than selecting someone at random to go
> and bother.
> 
> I don't think anyone will prevent you from being "charitable and kind"
> by providing answers to the guy's questions on the list though.
> 
> ... JG

Slightly paraphrasing a very old and wise saying:
Give a man a fish,
he eats for a day.
Teach him how to fish,
he eats for a lifetime.
-- 
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[asterisk-users] A little OT but need an opinion on Aastra 57i CT

2009-10-15 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I have a need for a wireless solution and have been looking at the
Aastra 57i CT phone that have the wireless handset with them.  Aastra
says they will cover "up to 300,000 square feet".
I am finding this hard to accept.  I was also wondering about the
"secure WDCT cordless technology"  Could this be a form of DECT?
Any one using these that can shed some lite?
Thanks.
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Re: [asterisk-users] chanspy and DISA

2009-09-30 Thread John Millican
Steve Edwards wrote:
>> Steve Edwards wrote:
>>> Is the manager or are the agents using disa()?
>>>
>>> How about:
>>>
>>>  exten = *,n,set(SPYGROUP=ALLOW-SPYING)
>>>
>>> for the agents and:
>>>
>>>  exten = *,n,    chanspy(,g(ALLOW-SPYING))
>>>
>>> the manager?
> 
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, John Millican wrote:
>> The manager wants to be able to spy on agents who dial through the PBX 
>> from their homes.  Currently the agents dial the main number, use the 
>> "secret" code to get to authenticate and DISA, and then dial back out 
>> for their sales calls. I have chanspy working great on all internal 
>> phones/extensions use group to limit who can spy and who can not. It not 
>> so much to allow spying it is finding the correct channel to spy on for 
>> the remote users.
> 
> How about something like these snippets:
> 
> [i](!)
>  exten = i,1,goto(${CONTEXT},s,1)
> [s](!)
>  exten = s,1,verbose(1,[${CONTEXT}:${EXTEN}])
> 
> [home-agent-login](i,s)
>  exten = s,n,read(AGENT-ID,enter-agent-number)
>  exten = s,n,set(SPYGROUP=${AGENT-ID})
>  .
>  .
>  .
> 
> [supervisor-login](i,s)
>  exten = s,n,read(AGENT-ID,enter-agent-number)
>  exten = s,n,chanspy(,g(${AGENT-ID}))
>  exten = s,n,goto(s,1)
>  .
>  .
>  .
> 


Thank you very much for this.
With a little tweaking it worked great, since each remote workers
callerid is matched before going to authenticate I just set the spy
group so the remote guys don't have a choice and now the manager has a
known group of one for each remote worker.
Thanks again for the help
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] chanspy and DISA

2009-09-29 Thread John Millican
Steve Edwards wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, John Millican wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a request for remote users to be able to dial through the system
>>>> so that the sales managers can barge/chanspy on the sales force. I have
>>>> the DISA part working with authentication(rather straight forward) but
>>>> what I can not figure out is how to enable the supervisors to be able to
>>>> barge on these calls.  Is there a way to find the channel to barge on
>>>> that would be usable by NON tech people?
> 
>> Steve Edwards wrote:
> 
>>> How do you see this working? I'm guessing the manager would like to either
>>> key in an agent ID number or be able to step through agents?
>>>
>>> The chanspy() "g" option may be part of your solution.
>>>
>>>  g(grp) - Match only channels where their ${SPYGROUP} variable is set
>>> to 'grp'.
>>>
> 
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, John Millican wrote:
>> Exactly, the problem is I can not determine the channel that DISA 
>> receives or places the call on.  Is there a way to set this in the dial 
>> plan? Or am I just missing something simple?  It was suggested to use 
>> the AMI and present the info as a web page but this will require 
>> retraining the manager, as we all know this is a notoriously difficult 
>> process.
> 
> Is the manager or are the agents using disa()?
> 
> How about:
> 
>  exten = *,n,set(SPYGROUP=ALLOW-SPYING)
> 
> for the agents and:
> 
>  exten = *,n,chanspy(,g(ALLOW-SPYING))
> 
> the manager?
> 

The manager wants to be able to spy on agents who dial through the PBX
from their homes.  Currently the agents dial the main number, use the
"secret" code to get to authenticate and DISA, and then dial back out
for their sales calls.
I have chanspy working great on all internal phones/extensions use group
to limit who can spy and who can not. It not so much to allow spying it
is finding the correct channel to spy on for the remote users.

JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] chanspy and DISA

2009-09-29 Thread John Millican
Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, John Millican wrote:
> 
>> I have a request for remote users to be able to dial through the system 
>> so that the sales managers can barge/chanspy on the sales force. I have 
>> the DISA part working with authentication(rather straight forward) but 
>> what I can not figure out is how to enable the supervisors to be able to 
>> barge on these calls.  Is there a way to find the channel to barge on 
>> that would be usable by NON tech people?
> 
> How do you see this working? I'm guessing the manager would like to either 
> key in an agent ID number or be able to step through agents?
> 
> The chanspy() "g" option may be part of your solution.
> 
>  g(grp) - Match only channels where their ${SPYGROUP} variable is set 
> to 'grp'.
> 

Exactly, the problem is I can not determine the channel that DISA
receives or places the call on.  Is there a way to set this in the dial
plan? Or am I just missing something simple?  It was suggested to use
the AMI and present the info as a web page but this will require
retraining the manager, as we all know this is a notoriously difficult
process.
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] chanspy and DISA

2009-09-29 Thread John Millican
Hello all,
OS OpenSuSE 10.3
* ver 1.4.26.2
zaptel ver. 1.12
Digium TE122

I have a request for remote users to be able to dial through the system
  so that the sales managers can barge/chanspy on the sales force.
I have the DISA part working with authentication(rather straight
forward) but what I can not figure out is how to enable the supervisors
to be able to barge on these calls.  Is there a way to find the channel
to barge on that would be usable by NON tech people?
Any thoughts?

TIA,
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] [SPAM] RE: dCAP Exam

2009-09-16 Thread John Millican
C. Savinovich wrote:
> What about if I use the browser from my cellular phone?
> 
>  
> 
> CS
> 
>  
> 
> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pascal Bruno
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:21 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] dCAP Exam
> 
>  
> 
> I believe the administrator can see what is on your screen with screen with
> those screen sharing stuff, this makes it harder a lil bit, and
> www.boratproxy.com becomes useless in that case.
> 
>  
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Steve Totaro
>  wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tilghman Lesher 
> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:14:32 Neeraj Chand wrote:
>> Hmm...so by open book, that means access to the internet? Possible to
>> get own notes ?
> 
> Yes, you have access to the Internet, but your access is proxied, and the
> administrator of the test can see everything that you access.  So it's best
> for you stick with only general guides and not look for crib notes.  If your
> test proctor believes you cheated, you fail.
> 
> 
> --
> Tilghman Lesher
> Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer
> twitter: Corydon76 | IRC: Corydon76-dig (Freenode)
> Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
> 
> 
> Just tunnel your HTTP traffic over an SSH link and go to some dCAP brain
> dump sites.   
> 
> Or go to www.boratproxy.com and confuse their proxy.  ah too fun.
> 
I can't resist:
After having taken many MS and Cisco tests in the past, it would seem
rather apparent to me that for the dcap, as with any other test, if you
know what you are doing you are all set and you don't have to try and
find ways to cheat that don't  look like cheating.

Disclaimer: I have not taken the dcap test yet!

JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Aastra 51i and PAP2T behind NAT

2009-09-11 Thread John Millican
OK this is the RTFM question of the day but I need a sanity check.
I have 2 Astra 51i phone and a linksys PAP2 on a single DSL connection.

2 Aastra 51i-|
 |-NAT on dsl moden--(Internet)--Asterisk
PAP2t|

The DSL modem/router which has QOS set for the src and dest to the * box
the PAP2 has both lines registered @ ports 5060 and 5061 and work like a
charm.  one of the the aastra's registered at port 1025 worked all day
but the showed no service and lost registration over night sometime.
this happens with much regularity. I am looking for the docs on these
phones to see if they have a NAT keep alive option.  Does this sound
like a reasonable place to start for a solution?

Thanks in advance
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Re: [asterisk-users] probably an rtfm but... need to dial out to 2 PSTNlines from AMI

2009-05-28 Thread John Millican
Danny Nicholas wrote:
> users.conf
> [108]
> username = 108
> transfer = yes
> mailbox = 108
> call-limit = 100
> fullname = General Messages
> registersip = no
> host = dynamic
> callgroup = 1
> context = DLPN_DialPlan1
> cid_number = 108
> hasvoicemail = yes
> vmsecret = 1234
> email = du...@dummy.com
> threewaycalling = no
> hasdirectory = no
> callwaiting = no
> hasmanager = no
> hasagent = no
> hassip = yes
> hasiax = no
> secret =
> nat = yes
> canreinvite = no
> dtmfmode = rfc2833
> insecure = no
> pickupgroup = 1
> disallow = all
> allow = ulaw,gsm
> autoprov = no
> label =
> macaddress =
> linenumber = 1
> 
> no entry in sip.conf
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Millican
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:17 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] probably an rtfm but... need to dial out to 2
> PSTNlines from AMI
> 
> Hello all,
> I have a need to be able to use the originate AMI command to dial out to
> the PSTN, have that person answer and then have the second PSTN
> connection dialed out.
> I have tried to use:
> Action: Originate
>  Channel: sip/@
>  Context: default
>  Exten: 
>  Priority: 1
>  Timeout: 3
> 
> This does not dial the number through the provider, actually, it seems
> that the number never gets passed to the provider.
> I suppose I could create a dummy sip exten but it would have to be one
> that had no device attached and I am unclear on how to do that.
> Any Sugestion on either method?
> 
> TIA
Thanks for the info Danny.

I also found while doing more reading that I can use
Action: Originate
Channel: local/1...@mynewcontext
Context: default
Exten: 
Priority: 1
Timeout: 3

and then setup a context in the dial plan that dial out to the needed
number.

I new as soon as I sent the question something rtfm ish would hit me

Thanks again
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[asterisk-users] probably an rtfm but... need to dial out to 2 PSTN lines from AMI

2009-05-28 Thread John Millican
Hello all,
I have a need to be able to use the originate AMI command to dial out to
the PSTN, have that person answer and then have the second PSTN
connection dialed out.
I have tried to use:
Action: Originate
 Channel: sip/@
 Context: default
 Exten: 
 Priority: 1
 Timeout: 3

This does not dial the number through the provider, actually, it seems
that the number never gets passed to the provider.
I suppose I could create a dummy sip exten but it would have to be one
that had no device attached and I am unclear on how to do that.
Any Sugestion on either method?

TIA
-- 
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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Dialplan Digitmaps

2009-05-07 Thread John Millican
Justin Phelps wrote:
>  dialplan.digit 
> map="[2-9]11T|[*]xxT|891xxxT|[1-7]xxxT|8[0-46-8]xxT|8500T|851xxxT|9,1[2-9]xT|9,xxxT"
>  
> dialplan.digitmap.timeOut="3|3|3|3|3|3|3|3|3"/>
> 
> Do the above changes look in line with common practice JohnM?
Short Answer:
They do.
Longer answer,
You only need to put the T in the dialplan.digit map where you might
need to wait to be sure the user is finished dialing, it will not hurt
to have it there.  This way if you have extensions like 1234 and 12345
you can use something like |123X.T| bad example but you get the idea.
This will wait for the amount of seconds that you have in the
dialplan.digitmap.timeOut for that section after the user has dialed 4
digits to be sure that they are not going to dial the 5th digit.  I put
the time in for all section in the dialplan.digitmap.timeOut sect
whether iput the T in the dialplan.digit map section or not just to make
it easer for my pea brain to follow what time out corralates to which
dial section.  You may not want to wait for 3 seconds in all dial
condition, you may put a 1 or a 2 second wait for some and a 3 or for
second wait for others. I hope this has not confused matters any more.
-- 
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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Dialplan Digitmaps

2009-05-07 Thread John Millican
Justin Phelps wrote:
> I'm replacing a SoundPoint IP 600 with a SoundPoint IP 650.
> 
> I attempted to simply reuse the existing config files for the old phone 
> on the new phone, but the new phone would lock up on the 4th digit when 
> attempted to dial out certain numbers. So, I downloaded the newest 
> firmware and config templates from Polycom, and attempted to migrate the 
> settings. Seems I'm missing something from the old configs though, and I 
> need some help figuring out why these expressions lock up the new phone.
> 
> Old Configs
>  dialplan.digitmap="[2-9]11|[*]xx|891xxx|[1-7]xxx|8[0-46-8]xx|8500|851xxx|9,1[2-9]x|9,xxxT"
>  
   ^^^
> dialplan.digitmap.timeOut="3"/>
> 
> Template from Polycom
>  dialplan.digitmap="[2-9]11|0T|011xxx.T|[0-1][2-9]x|[2-9]x|[2-9]xxxT"
>  
> dialplan.digitmap.timeOut="3|3|3|3|3|3"/>
> 
> Anyone have any insight or suggestions on this issue, and on upgrading 
> Polycom configs in general?
Do those certain numbers start with a 1 through 7?  You may have to put
a T in the above marked section and add to the series of
dialplan.digitmap.timeOut.
Just to keep myself from getting confused i usually put in the full
string of time outs, needed or not.
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Re: [asterisk-users] Fwd: [asterisk-r2] MFCR2 With Unicall - canunicall affect zaptel commands?

2009-04-07 Thread John Millican
-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:21 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fwd: [asterisk-r2] MFCR2 With Unicall -
canunicall affect zaptel commands?

The message includes a host of irrelevant and relevant information. The
question is not clear. It is a horrible piece of top-posting mess.

Please provide the relevant configuration again and clarify your answer.


What hardware do you have? What connections do you have? Are they
working OK?

Generally chan_zap and chan_unicall should not handle the same spans

-- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com
+972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com
iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir

Forwarded message -- From: Juan Carlos Huerta
 Date: 07-abr-2009 13:41 Subject: Re:
[asterisk-r2] MFCR2 With Unicall - can unicall affect zaptel commands?
To: asterisk...@lists.digium.com Please wirte to
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com to get help about this problem. Juan
Carlos ~ Lo que no te mata te fortalece ~ On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:35
PM, Giovanny Magallanes  wrote:
> > Thanks, Juan  Carlos.
> >
> > Yes, I still can t type the commands in the asterisk console . I
dont have
> > dial tone for FXS ports .
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Giovanni.
> >
> >
> > 2009/4/7, Juan Carlos Huerta :
>> >>
>> >> And what is the result? still with zap commands problem?
>> >>
>> >> Juan Carlos
>> >> ~ Lo que no te mata te fortalece ~
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Giovanny Magallanes
>> >>  wrote:
>>> >> > I did it:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > elastix*CLI> load chan_zap.so
>>> >> > The 'load' command is deprecated and will be removed in a future
>>> >> > release.
>>> >> > Please use 'module load' instead.
>>> >> >   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf': Found
>>> >> >   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/zapata_additional.conf': Found
>>> >> >   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/zapata-channels.conf': Found
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 63, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 64, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 65, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 66, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 67, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 68, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 68, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 69, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 70, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 71, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 72, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 73, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 74, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 75, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 76, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 77, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > -- Registered channel 78, FXO Kewlstart signalling
>>> >> > elastix*CLI>
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thank you Juan
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Giovanni
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 2009/4/7, Juan Carlos Huerta :
 >> >>
 >> >> Try to load the chan_zap.so module manually to see if you get
some
 >> >> error.
 >> >>
 >> >> Juan Carlos
 >> >> ~ Lo que no te mata te fortalece ~
 >> >>
 >> >>
 >> >>
 >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Giovanny Magallanes
 >> >>  wrote:
> >> >> > I'm using Elastix 1.1-8 with:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > asterisk-1.4.19
> >> >> > spandsp-0.0.4
> >> >> > unicall-0.0.5pre1
> >> >> > zaptel-1.4.9.2
> >> >> > unicall-0.0.5pre1
> >> >> > libmfcr2-0.0.3
> >> >> > libsupertone-0.0.2
> >> >> > libunicall-0.0.3
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Regards,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Giovanni
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 2009/4/7, Giovanny Magallanes :
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Ok, Thanks. The chan_zap commands are unavailable, but
unicall
>> >> >> >> commands
>> >> >> >> and my E1 MFC/R2 are OK.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Giovanni
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> 2009/4/7, Moises Silva :
>>> >> >> >>>
>>> >> >> >>> I don't understand your problem. And no, unicall has
nothing to do
>>> >> >> >>> with chan_zap.so commands.
>>> >> >> >>>
>>> >> >> >>> Please, in the future, don't hijack threads, open a
new thread for
>>> >> >> >>> your discussion. This time I changed the subject already.
>>> >> >> >>>
>>> >> >> >>> Moy
>>> >> >> >>>
>>> >> >> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Giovanny Magallanes
>>> >> >> >>>  wrote:
 >> >> >>> > Hi, Guys.
 >> >> >>> >
 >> >> >>> > I did not type any zaptel commands in asterisk
console. I have
 >> >> >>> > installed
 >> >> >>> > Elast

Re: [asterisk-users] Area code 757 "Car warranty" calls

2009-03-20 Thread John Millican
Jon Pounder wrote:
> Cary Fitch wrote:
> 
> The problem has two prongs - first we are in control of our own 
> landlines and can use asterisk to screen whatever crap we wish before 
> disturbing a real user or allowing a vm to get stored (but it would be 
> nice not to have to).
> 
> The other issue is we are not for the most part in any kind of control 
> situation of our cellphones, and there is no way to stop that ring from 
> happening and once it does it either needs to be answered or a vm dealt 
> with. This is where the bigger players need to start living up to their 
> responsibilities and not just ignore the problem.
> 
> 
> 
>> Well it will get me off my rant in this forum.  Isn't that worth something?
>>
>> Seriously, as "users" some of us have one 2 line system and others are
>> running multiple systems, absorbing hundreds of thousands of calls a day.
>>
>> Where the %&#! "warranty calls" are coming from or not coming from is useful
>> info.
>>
>> Cary Fitch
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Don Kelly
>> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:23 AM
>> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Area code 757 "Car warranty" calls
>>
>> This information appears to be relevant, but useless?
>>
>>   --Don
>>
>> Don Kelly
>> PCF Corp
>> People Come First
>>
>> 651 842-1000
>> 888 Don Kell(y)
>> 651 842-1001 fax
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman
>> Lesher
>> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:39 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Area code 757 "Car warranty" calls
>>
>> On Friday 20 March 2009 00:38:45 Cary Fitch wrote:
>>   
>>> Sure if you can get up stream carriers to cooperate.  Just follow the
>>> 
>> CDRs.
>>   
>>> But short of a subpoena... or enlightened self interest, like the calls
>>> take down a tandem.. (not likely).
>>>
>>> We could loop the calls back to get AT&T's attention, but they would just
>>> complain about the loop, not trace them back to the source.
>>> 
>> Nothing official, but if these are the same clowns who called me
>> earlier this month (and who I filed a complaint on at the DNC registry),
>> then changing their area code may have been a ploy to avoid more
>> complaints.  Here is some relevant information on that number:
>> http://whocalled.us/lookup/7025200085
>>
>>   
I realize that finding these (insert foul and derogatory expletive), but
if we do maybe a public whipping with a cat-o-nine tails on the six
O'Clock news?
It is my phone, I pay for the service I should not have to answer (or
even filter out) calls from some idiot that has absolutely no business
calling me in the first place. There are many other avenues of
advertising that are not invasive of my privacy and do not require me to
pay for the call in the case of a cell phone number.  Maybe sending a
bill to some of these jerks for all the cell calls they have made will
hit them where it hurts.
Just my opinion
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi

2009-03-16 Thread John Millican
Shaun Ruffell wrote:
> John Millican wrote:
>> Well,
>> lsmod | grep hisax returns nothing
>>
>> plain lsmod:
>> Module  Size  Used by
>> dahdi_dummy22472  0
>> dahdi 215776  1 dahdi_dummy
>> crc_ccitt  18944  1 dahdi
>> af_packet  57100  2
>> snd_pcm_oss67456  0
>> snd_mixer_oss  34176  1 snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_seq74992  0
>> snd_seq_device 25620  1 snd_seq
>> vmnet  72992  3
>> parport_pc 58456  0
>> parport56588  1 parport_pc
>> vmmon 158908  0
>> sunrpc198600  1
>> iptable_filter 19840  0
>> ip_tables  37848  1 iptable_filter
>> ip6table_filter19584  0
>> ip6_tables 31944  1 ip6table_filter
>> x_tables   37000  2 ip_tables,ip6_tables
>> ipv6  372344  29
>> cpufreq_conservative24968  0
>> cpufreq_userspace  23680  0
>> cpufreq_powersave  18560  0
>> powernow_k831504  0
>> apparmor   58672  0
>> loop   36356  0
>> dm_mod 77152  0
>> ohci1394   51272  0
>> ieee1394  115800  1 ohci1394
>> i2c_nforce222784  0
>> snd_hda_intel 368804  0
>> i2c_core   43648  1 i2c_nforce2
>> snd_pcm   108680  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
>> snd_timer  42632  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> snd84984  7
>> snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
>> k8temp 22656  0
>> hwmon  20232  1 k8temp
>> button 26400  0
>> usblp  30976  0
>> forcedeth  65416  0
>> rtc_cmos   25016  0
>> rtc_core   38156  1 rtc_cmos
>> rtc_lib19968  1 rtc_core
>> sr_mod 33444  0
>> cdrom  52392  1 sr_mod
>> usb_storage   102816  0
>> soundcore  25360  1 snd
>> snd_page_alloc 27280  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>> ide_core  165648  1 usb_storage
>> sg 53304  0
>> usbhid 58160  0
>> hid43776  1 usbhid
>> ff_memless 22536  1 usbhid
>> sd_mod 45824  6
>> ohci_hcd   38020  0
>> ehci_hcd   50572  0
>> usbcore   155560  6 usblp,usb_storage,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
>> edd26760  0
>> ext3  156688  3
>> mbcache26248  1 ext3
>> jbd89192  1 ext3
>> fan22792  0
>> sata_nv38404  4
>> pata_amd   31876  0
>> libata164096  2 sata_nv,pata_amd
>> scsi_mod  176536  5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
>> thermal34576  0
>> processor  59592  2 powernow_k8,thermal
> 
> 
> Looking at the lsmod output, it appears that the wctdm module is not 
> loaded.  So either the /etc/dahdi/modules has the wctdm module commented 
> out, or something is wrong with the /etc/init.d/dahdi that it isn't 
> viewing that file.
> 
> If you unload all the drivers ('/etc/init.d/dahdi stop') and make sure 
> they are unloaded ('lsmod | grep dahdi' should not show any output) then 
> just load the wctdm driver ('modprobe wctdm'), and then what does dmesg 
> show?
> 
Well that did it.  I guess I will have to modify /etc/init.d/dahdi to
only modprobe wctdm for now and run with it.  wctdm was the only module
that was not commented out in /etc/dahdi/modules so it must be as you
said the /etc/init.d/dahdi was not reading the file as ity should.  I
will look into what is happening there.

dmessg output:
dahdi: Telephony Interface Unloaded
dahdi: Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
dahdi: Version: 2.1.0.4
Freshmaker version: 71
Freshmaker passed register test
Module 0: Installed -- AUTO FXS/DPO
Module 1: Installed -- AUTO FXS/DPO
Module 2: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
Module 3: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
Found a Wildcard TDM: Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F (4 modules)
dahdi_echocan_mg2: Registered echo canceler 'MG2'
dahdi: Registered tone zone 0 (United States / North America)

dahdi_cfg output:
DAHDI Tools Version - 2.1.0.2

DAHDI Version: 2.1.0.4
Echo Canceller(s): MG2
Configuration
==


Channel map:

Channel 01: FXO Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: 

Re: [asterisk-users] No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi

2009-03-15 Thread John Millican
Shaun Ruffell wrote:
> John Millican wrote:
>> Shaun Ruffell wrote:
>>> John Millican wrote:
>>>  > # /etc/init.d/dahdi start
>>>  > Loading DAHDI hardware modules:
>>>  >   wctdm:  modprobe wctdm
>>>
>>> What is the output of the 'dmesg' command at this point?
>> All I see in dmesg is:
>> dahdi: Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
>> dahdi: Version: 2.1.0.4
>> dahdi_dummy: RTC rate is 1024
>>
>>
> 
> Odds are there is another driver in your system then that is attaching 
> to the tdm400 before the wctdm driver.  I've seen where the hisax driver 
> attaches first.  Does 'lsmod | grep hisax' show that hisax is loaded?
> 
> You can see what drivers may be configured for a board by looking at the 
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap file.  The tdm400 uses a vendorid 
> of 0xe159 and a device id 0x0001.  Search for any driver in the pcimap 
> file that indicates support for that driver, and add it to the 
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> blacklist hisax
> blacklist hisax_fcpcipnp
> 
> Cheers,
> Shaun
> 
> 
Well,
lsmod | grep hisax returns nothing

plain lsmod:
Module  Size  Used by
dahdi_dummy22472  0
dahdi 215776  1 dahdi_dummy
crc_ccitt  18944  1 dahdi
af_packet  57100  2
snd_pcm_oss67456  0
snd_mixer_oss  34176  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq74992  0
snd_seq_device 25620  1 snd_seq
vmnet  72992  3
parport_pc 58456  0
parport56588  1 parport_pc
vmmon 158908  0
sunrpc198600  1
iptable_filter 19840  0
ip_tables  37848  1 iptable_filter
ip6table_filter19584  0
ip6_tables 31944  1 ip6table_filter
x_tables   37000  2 ip_tables,ip6_tables
ipv6  372344  29
cpufreq_conservative24968  0
cpufreq_userspace  23680  0
cpufreq_powersave  18560  0
powernow_k831504  0
apparmor   58672  0
loop   36356  0
dm_mod 77152  0
ohci1394   51272  0
ieee1394  115800  1 ohci1394
i2c_nforce222784  0
snd_hda_intel 368804  0
i2c_core   43648  1 i2c_nforce2
snd_pcm   108680  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer  42632  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd84984  7
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
k8temp 22656  0
hwmon  20232  1 k8temp
button 26400  0
usblp  30976  0
forcedeth  65416  0
rtc_cmos   25016  0
rtc_core   38156  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib19968  1 rtc_core
sr_mod 33444  0
cdrom  52392  1 sr_mod
usb_storage   102816  0
soundcore  25360  1 snd
snd_page_alloc 27280  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ide_core  165648  1 usb_storage
sg 53304  0
usbhid 58160  0
hid43776  1 usbhid
ff_memless 22536  1 usbhid
sd_mod 45824  6
ohci_hcd   38020  0
ehci_hcd   50572  0
usbcore   155560  6 usblp,usb_storage,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
edd26760  0
ext3  156688  3
mbcache26248  1 ext3
jbd89192  1 ext3
fan22792  0
sata_nv38404  4
pata_amd   31876  0
libata164096  2 sata_nv,pata_amd
scsi_mod  176536  5 sr_mod,usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
thermal34576  0
processor  59592  2 powernow_k8,thermal

in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist there is already:
# ISDN modules are load from /lib/udev/isdn.sh

blacklist hisax
blacklist hisax_fcpcipnp
blacklist hisax_st5481

less /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap | grep 0xe159
hisax0xe159 0x0002 0x 0x
0x 0x 0x0
hisax0xe159 0x0001 0x 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xa159 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xe159 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xb100 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xb1d9 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xb118 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xb119 0x
0x 0x 0x0
wctdm0xe159 0x0001 0xa9fd 0x
0x 0x000

Re: [asterisk-users] No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi

2009-03-15 Thread John Millican
Shaun Ruffell wrote:
> John Millican wrote:
>  > # /etc/init.d/dahdi start
>  > Loading DAHDI hardware modules:
>  >   wctdm:  modprobe wctdm
> 
> What is the output of the 'dmesg' command at this point?
> 
>  >
>  > No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi, loading dahdi_dummy
>  > Running dahdi_cfg:  /usr/sbin/dahdi_cfg
> 
> If the dmesg shows that the driver found the card and there were not any 
> conflicts, and dahdi_dummy is still loaded, this could be the result of 
>   an open reference to the old /proc/dahdi directory.
> 
> i.e., you can force this to happen if you
> 
> 'modprobe dahdi && cd /proc/dahdi && modprobe -r dahdi && 
> /etc/init.d/dahdi start'
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Shaun
All I see in dmesg is:
dahdi: Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
dahdi: Version: 2.1.0.4
dahdi_dummy: RTC rate is 1024


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[asterisk-users] No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi

2009-03-15 Thread John Millican
Hello all,
Ok it is Sunday afternoon and I am going crazy.  I have been running in
circles so long that I can't think straight.  As an example, I sent this
message to the wrong address the first try, AAAGGH.  I have
Asterisk 1.6.0.6 and DAHDI Tools Version - 2.1.0.2,
DAHDI Version: 2.1.0.4, OpenSuSE 10.3 x86_64, tdm422
at the end of installing dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools I get:
install -D dahdi.init /etc/init.d/dahdi
/sbin/chkconfig --add dahdi
dahdi 0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on   6:off
DAHDI has been configured.

If you have any DAHDI hardware it is now recommended you
edit /etc/dahdi/modules in order to load support for only
the DAHDI hardware installed in this system.  By default
support for all DAHDI hardware is loaded at DAHDI start.

I think that the DAHDI hardware you have on your system is:
pci::03:08.0 wctdm-   e159:0001 Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F

so it is seeing the card

/etc/dahdi/system.conf:
loadzone   = us
defaultzone=us
fxoks=1,2
fxsks=3,4
echocanceller=mg2,1-4
channels=1-4

/etc/dahdi/init.conf:
MODULES="$MODULES wctdm"

/etc/dahdi/modules
# Digium TDM400P: up to 4 analog ports
wctdm

# /etc/init.d/dahdi start
Loading DAHDI hardware modules:
  wctdm:  modprobe wctdm

No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi, loading dahdi_dummy
Running dahdi_cfg:  /usr/sbin/dahdi_cfg

# /usr/sbin/dahdi_cfg -
DAHDI Tools Version - 2.1.0.2

DAHDI Version: 2.1.0.4
Echo Canceller(s):
Configuration
==


Channel map:

Channel 01: FXO Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 01)
Channel 02: FXO Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 02)
Channel 03: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 03)
Channel 04: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Echo Canceler: mg2) (Slaves: 04)

4 channels to configure.

DAHDI_CHANCONFIG failed on channel 1: No such device or address (6)


*CLI> dahdi show status
Description  Alarms  IRQbpviol CRC4
Fra Codi Options  LBO
DAHDI_DUMMY/1 (source: RTC) 1UNCONFI 0  0  0
CAS Unk  YEL  0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1)

I am really hoping that I am just missing something stupid. Anyone have
any suggestions?

TIA
JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] Aastra phones

2009-02-24 Thread John Millican
Mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I`ve been toying with an Aastra phone (9143i) wondering if it could be a
> good alternative to to the more expensive Polycom phones.
> 
>  
> 
> One thing which I can't figure out, although it certainly looks simple,
> is to update the firmware though FTP (not TFTP).  I have set the ftp
> provisioning server in the Aastra phone, and put the firmware file
> 9143i.st in the root folder where the login/password pair ends up.
> Everything is entered correctly, or so it seems (works fine with my
> Polycoms).
> 
>  
> 
> When I reboot the phone from the Web UI, it doesn't seem to take in the
> new firmware.  But it does seem to download the (empty) aastra.cfg file
> (proving that the provisoning server settings are correct).
> 
>  
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

I believe that the older firmware for the Aastra phone will only update
from TFTP.  I am not sure what rev level this changed at though.
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Re: [asterisk-users] SIP to IAX?

2008-09-11 Thread John Millican
Chris Bagnall wrote:
>> I would suggest using OpenSIPS with Asterisk and bypass IAX all together for 
>> this
>> particular application.
> 
> If the users in question are often in hotels abroad, something like this may 
> not solve the problem - I've noticed quite a few hotels are now blocking SIP 
> traffic (presumably so as to "encourage" people to use the hideously 
> overpriced phones in their rooms to make calls from).
> 
> Your best bet might well be some low-cost IAX handsets for those users who 
> are unable/unwilling to use softphones. I think Atcom make some IAX handsets 
> - quality isn't great compared to the usual suspects (Cisco, Polycom, Snom, 
> etc.), but they do work.
> 
> Assuming the users all have Wi-Fi on their laptops, an alternative might be a 
> simple VPN setup on the laptops, bridged to their Wi-Fi card running in AP 
> mode, then use something like the SIP client on a Wi-Fi capable mobile phone 
> or a Wi-Fi SIP phone.
> 
>> An OpenSIPS solution will take care of your traveler's NAT issues (and could
>> handle the registrations) while you used Asterisk for voicemail and whatever
>> else.
>> I've personally used this type of general setup in the past with a great 
>> deal of
>> success for remote offices and soft-phones on laptops.
> 
> Not directly on-topic for this list, but I'd not heard of OpenSIPS before, so 
> I had a look at the website. It looks to be a fork of OpenSER. Does that mean 
> OpenSER development has slowed/ceased, or has the OpenSER project itself 
> morphed into OpenSIPS?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
via a quick google:OpenSER is now OpenSIPS
www.opensips.org  OpenSER continues via OpenSIPS A new name, same
project

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Re: [asterisk-users] GotoIftime

2008-07-30 Thread John Millican
Ira wrote:
> At 01:36 PM 7/30/2008, you wrote:
>> Nhadie wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> How cn i define in GotoIfTime from day 1 extending to day 2?
>>>
>>> e.g July 30 2200 up to July 31 0200
>>>
>>> I'm thinking like this: GotoIfTime(22:00-02:00|*|30-31|jul?test,s,1)
>>>
>> GotoIfTime(22:00-23:59|*|30-31|jul?test,s,1)
>> GotoIfTime(00:00-02:00|*|30-31|jul?test,s,1)
>>
>> Doug
> 
> Does that leave a 1 minute or 1 second hole? 
> 
> 
Should be neither.  Since the time frame allowed is in minutes there is
no time between 23:59 and 00:00  Since it has to be one or the other.
Now, if I "assume" that the time is converted from time_t to 24 hour
format using something such as localtime or gmtime the result of this
should be using only tm_min and tm_hour which would also mean there is
no hole.
THESE ARE ALL ASSUMPTIONS, I have not checked the code.

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Re: [asterisk-users] Callerid Woes

2008-07-29 Thread John Millican
John Koenig wrote:
> I tried all of the suggestions, and still the callerid remains intact.  
> I guess at this point I am starting to wonder what bit of logic is being 
> run when I dial *8111XX...
> 
> Is there a way I can trace how a call is being processed within 
> asterisk? Or even see what I am sending to my VoIP terminating node?
> 
> John
> 
> John Millican wrote:
>> Doug Lytle wrote:
>>   
>>> John Koenig wrote:
>>> 
>>>> exten=s,1,set(CALLERID(all)= null)
>>>> exten=s,n,Dial(${ARG1})
>>>>   
>>>>   
>>> Just a guess.
>>>
>>> exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(all)= null <0>)
>>> exten => s,n,SetCallerPres(prohib)
>>> exten => s,n,Dial(${ARG1})
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> 
>> I believe you need to use:
>> exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=)
>> To set an empty callerId
>>
>>   
> 

typing:
sip set debug peer 
at the CLI will give you a bunch of information as to what is going on
with that peer

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Re: [asterisk-users] Callerid Woes

2008-07-29 Thread John Millican
Doug Lytle wrote:
> John Koenig wrote:
>> exten=s,1,set(CALLERID(all)= null)
>> exten=s,n,Dial(${ARG1})
>>   
> 
> Just a guess.
> 
> exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(all)= null <0>)
> exten => s,n,SetCallerPres(prohib)
> exten => s,n,Dial(${ARG1})
> 
> 
> Doug
> 

I believe you need to use:
exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=)
To set an empty callerId

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[asterisk-users] CallerId show with IP address appended

2008-07-24 Thread John Millican
Hello,
Asterisk 1.4.21.1
Well it seems like my month for questions.  I have a situation where the
CallerID num shows as [EMAIL PROTECTED](the ip of the asterisk
box) on calls to any of the internal phones.   This prevents the
ability to dial out from the missed call list.  I have not been able to
find out why this is happing.  To further confuse the issue when i
register and extension to the public IP from outside the firewall I get
only 16035551212 as the clid.  I have several NoOps in the dial plan and
they all show the clid as 16035551212, which is also what is in the cdr,
but when it gets to the Polycom it has the IP appended. The phones are
all polycoms but have also tested with x-lite and it gets the ip
appended also.
Any pointers as to where to look?


JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Beep on transfer

2008-07-18 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I have a request that I have not been able to figure out as yet.  I need
to be able to play a beep when a call is transfered via attended transfer.
This is exactly what is in the bug tracker at:
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=3819
Has any one found a way, elegant ot otherwise, to make something such as
this work?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Re: [asterisk-users] READ application

2008-07-09 Thread John Millican
Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 09:08:50 John Millican wrote:
>> Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong or why the Read application
>> does not accept the # key as input?  My read statement:
>> exten => s,n,Read(uchoice|thankyouforcalling|3||1|1);
>>
>> In the prompt thankyouforcalling it says press pound for a company
>> directory along with some press this digit for blah blah.  If the caller
>> presses # the read applications exits and says that the user entered
>> nothing. Really strange that the app hears the DTMF, since it stops the
>> prompt, but does nothing with it.  Is it because Read exits with a #
>> terminated string so it sees ## and just ignores it?
>> If this is the case then maybe Background is the answer. But I am unable
>> to get Background to accept more than a single digit and I need to be
>> able to grab up to 3 digits or the # key.  My background statement:
>> exten => s,n,Background(thankyouforcalling|m||macro-jm-closed)
>> I have tried this wityh and with out the m option, same results.
>>
>> Both of these are run in a macro.
> 
> Anything running in a Macro matches new extensions in the place where the
> Macro was called from.  Background always matches new extensions, as opposed
> to Read, which collects DTMF for a variable.  If Background is only matching
> single-digit extensions, then you only have single-digit extensions in the
> calling context.
> 

Thank you Jared and Tilghman

I do have single digit and multiple digit extensions in the macro and
from "core show application background" I found that by using the
context option:
exten => s,n,Background(thankyouforcalling|||macro-jm-closed)
  ^^^
when calling background it will return to the macro from which it was
called, which it does as i can get to the defined single digit extens
such as
exten => 3,1,do something
exten => 4,1,do something
which are ONLY defined in the macro
but not the extensions defined such as:
exten => _2XX,1,do something
for my three digit internal phone extensions


So, next try. Since Read resets the value of the variable to an empty
string after the timeout if the caller does nothing or if the caller
presses #, is there a way to test if the caller pressed # in Read to
cause it to terminate or if the application simply timed out. If I can
test for this i would be able to tell if the user pressed # or not since
any other key press will insert a value into the variable.  Problem is
that if they do nothing or press # I get the empty variable so I cant
simply use LEN and a GoToIf.

Thanks again
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[asterisk-users] READ application

2008-07-09 Thread John Millican
Hello,

Asterisk version 1.4.21.1

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong or why the Read application
does not accept the # key as input?  My read statement:
exten => s,n,Read(uchoice|thankyouforcalling|3||1|1);

In the prompt thankyouforcalling it says press pound for a company
directory along with some press this digit for blah blah.  If the caller
presses # the read applications exits and says that the user entered
nothing. Really strange that the app hears the DTMF, since it stops the
prompt, but does nothing with it.  Is it because Read exits with a #
terminated string so it sees ## and just ignores it?
If this is the case then maybe Background is the answer. But I am unable
to get Background to accept more than a single digit and I need to be
able to grab up to 3 digits or the # key.  My background statement:
exten => s,n,Background(thankyouforcalling|m||macro-jm-closed)
I have tried this wityh and with out the m option, same results.

Both of these are run in a macro.

Thank you for any help.

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[asterisk-users] Read & Background

2008-07-05 Thread John Millican
Hello All,

Asterisk 1.4.20.1
SuSE 10.3

I have been building a dial plan and have run into some questions that I
have not been able to answer on Voip-info or google.  I am trying to use
either Read or Background to gather user input to an IVR in a Macro.  I
need to be able to branch based on the user entering the # key or up to
3 digits.  When I use Background I get the # key but am only able to
collect one digit.  If I use Read I can the three digits but the # key
is not recognized.  The system knows that a key was pressed as it exits
the prompt immediately but it then spits out to the CLI that the "user
entered nothing" and the variable uchoice is in fact empty.
What I have had to do is use a combination of both Read and Background,
rather ugly in my opinion.

Macro snipit:

exten => s,n,Read(uchoice|outmessg/greeting|3||1|3);
exten => s,n,GoToIf($[${LEN(${uchoice})}>0]?${uchoice},1);
exten => s,n,Background(outmessg/directory_rotary|m||macro-jm-in);
;have tried the above with and without the m option
exten => s,n,WaitExten(3);

This works but puts an unfortunate pause between the two prompts in
order to give the caller time to decide what they want to do.  I can't
just test for empty/NULL to see if the user hit the # key as I need to
go to operator if the user does nothing which also leaves uchoice set to
nothing.  I have set uchoice to 0 previously in the dialplan but when it
goes through read it gets reset to either the user entry of nothing if
the user does not press a key or presses #.

I would just not use the # key but the prompts were previously recorded
and I need to match prior functionality.

If I could get Read to recognize the # key or Background to accept more
than one digit I would be a much happier camper. Am I missing something?

Am in process of upgrading a test box to 1.4.21.1 to see if there is any
change, but hopes are not high.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] Asterisk and TDD

2008-06-06 Thread John Millican
Hello all,
I was just asked a question from a client that I have in regards to
TTY/TDD "telecommunications device for the deaf".  I have read on
voipinfo at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/tdd+mode that back in Dec
2006 this was in alpha stage in Asterisk. There does not (in my limited
searching) seam to be any other documentation. Is this in 1.4/1.6? Is
anyone using it? How well does it work?
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Re: [asterisk-users] interrupting MOH

2008-04-01 Thread John Millican
Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:14:25 Pete Kay wrote:
>> I am hoping someone can help me out on this.  I want to be able to
>> interrupt MOH every X seconds after the DIAL command is executed.  The
>> interrupt greeting is something like "please wait while we transfer your
>> call".  How can I do that?  Within the DIAL options, I can't see any
>> announce frequency or options that can help.
>>
>> Could anyone please tell me how that function can be accomplished?
> 
> The only way to do that currently is to implement the prompt within the MOH
> stream itself.
> 


Just off the top-o-my head(YMMV), couldn't you create a meetme and play 
hold music into the meetme and then also play the prompt into the meetme 
at the same time without interrupting the hold music?  This would 
obviously not work for high load but...
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] pulling my hair out over voicemail

2008-01-31 Thread John Millican
Shane D wrote:
> Try this:
> exten => 1000,1,Answer()
> exten => 1000,2,Wait(2)
> exten => 1000,3,VoiceMailMain()
> 
> You do not specify the mailbox number in the call to the application.
> You only specify the number to VoiceMail()
> 
> HTH,
> Shane
> 
> On 1/31/08, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> John Von Essen wrote:
>>> Any ideas what could be going on? I tried tweaking the extension 1000
>>> so it looks like:
>>>
>>> exten => 1000,3,VoicemailMain,s6000
>>>
>>>
>> It may be your syntax, try :-
>>
>> exten => 1000,3,VoicemailMain(6000|s)
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>> Systems Administrator
>> OANDA Corporation
>> www.oanda.com

What do you mean you do not use the mailbox in Voicemailmain see below:
*CLI>
   -= Info about application 'VoiceMailMain' =-

[Synopsis]
Check Voicemail messages

[Description]
   VoiceMailMain([EMAIL PROTECTED]|options]): This application allows the
calling party to check voicemail messages. A specific mailbox, and optional
corresponding context, may be specified. If a mailbox is not provided, the
calling party will be prompted to enter one. If a context is not specified,
the 'default' context will be used.

   Options:
 p- Consider the mailbox parameter as a prefix to the mailbox that
is entered by the caller.
 g(#) - Use the specified amount of gain when recording a voicemail
message. The units are whole-number decibels (dB).
 s- Skip checking the passcode for the mailbox.
 a(#) - Skip folder prompt and go directly to folder specified.
Defaults to INBOX
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Re: [asterisk-users] Maybe a little OT---USB Handset

2008-01-27 Thread John Millican
Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, John Millican wrote:
> 
>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:27:16AM -0500, John Millican wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
>>>> This may be a little OT for the list but it seems to be to be the place
>>>> to get the best answer. I have looked at the many Skype/Yahoo phones out
>>>> there and none seem to be what I am looking for.
>>>> I have a need for a USB handset that I can use with an Asterisk server.
>>> A USB handset is basically a sound device (and not a great one, usually)
>>> along with a small keyboard. Linux will usually easily identify the
>>> sound device and you can use the phone as chan_{oss,alsa,console}.
>>>
>>> Using the keyboard in it may be trickier.
>>>
>>> Do any of the above support cancelling acustic echo? Is it actually
>>> needed in this case?
>>>
>>
>> Tzafrir,
>> Thanks for the reply. Acusitic echo cancel may not be needed as this
>> will not be used in a noisy work place, only in possibly quieter home
>> environments.  There will also be no need for speaker phone operation.
>> Enabling the keypad is definitely the tricky part. I am trying to avoid
>> loading a soft phone since I don't want to have to instruct the users on
>> how to use one (mostly NON-technical types).  If the set looks and feels
>> like a phone they will be OK on their own.  I guess I may have to go
>> with a decent, hopefully inexpensive, basic IP desk phone.
> 
> I had a little success with a cheap USB 'phone' (From Tesco in the UK) 
> which was a Yealink device. Linux has a driver for the keypad on it which 
> makes it work just like a regular keyboard (limited number of keys, 
> obviously!), but the issue is still that you'd need a program of some 
> sorts to take the keypad input and translate it to an asterisk console 
> command dial, if using it as a console phone.
> 
> I did use it successfully some time back with idefisk, although idefisk 
> didn't have a keyboard equivalent of 'hang up' at the time (zoiper might 
> have now though). The down-side was that you needed to put the mouse over 
> the idefisk application so it had keyboard input focus )-:
> 
> Oh for a command-line IAX client, but it's something I just don't have 
> time to put together myself.
> 
> Gordon
Thanks for the replies.
I wonder if I could use the Yealink phone and write a connector to 
Asterisk with the IAX client on Sourceforge and make the handset look 
like an iaxphone?  Or maybe there is some other easier solution?  All I 
need is to have the ability to go
off hook/on hook, pass DTMF, and voice obviously :-)
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Re: [asterisk-users] Maybe a little OT---USB Handset

2008-01-27 Thread John Millican
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:27:16AM -0500, John Millican wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> This may be a little OT for the list but it seems to be to be the place 
>> to get the best answer. I have looked at the many Skype/Yahoo phones out 
>> there and none seem to be what I am looking for.
>> I have a need for a USB handset that I can use with an Asterisk server. 
> 
> A USB handset is basically a sound device (and not a great one, usually)
> along with a small keyboard. Linux will usually easily identify the
> sound device and you can use the phone as chan_{oss,alsa,console}.
> 
> Using the keyboard in it may be trickier.
> 
> Do any of the above support cancelling acustic echo? Is it actually
> needed in this case?
> 


Tzafrir,
Thanks for the reply. Acusitic echo cancel may not be needed as this 
will not be used in a noisy work place, only in possibly quieter home 
environments.  There will also be no need for speaker phone operation. 
Enabling the keypad is definitely the tricky part. I am trying to avoid 
loading a soft phone since I don't want to have to instruct the users on 
how to use one (mostly NON-technical types).  If the set looks and feels 
like a phone they will be OK on their own.  I guess I may have to go 
with a decent, hopefully inexpensive, basic IP desk phone.


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[asterisk-users] Maybe a little OT---USB Handset

2008-01-27 Thread John Millican

Hello All,
This may be a little OT for the list but it seems to be to be the place 
to get the best answer. I have looked at the many Skype/Yahoo phones out 
there and none seem to be what I am looking for.
I have a need for a USB handset that I can use with an Asterisk server. 
 This will be on the server itself and an extension on that server, 
most likely the only extension.  The handset needs the ability to 
generate its own on hook/off hook and DTMF so that I would not need to 
load a soft phone.  I will eventually be needing many of these so if the 
set up requires a lot of hacking to the phone it "may" not be feasible. 
Having said that any suggestions will be appreciated.  I know I could 
use an ATA and a PSTN Phone from wally world, but this will not fit the 
project or the need.


Thanks,
JohnM
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[asterisk-users] inbound Audio problems probably not NAT related?

2008-01-15 Thread John Millican

Hello all,
Was hoping to get a sanity check along with a question.  Below is the
output from top run with normal defaults, except to show both CPU's, on
a SuSE 10.2 box with Asterisk v1.4.15.

top - 10:00:58 up 3 days, 5:54, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.01
Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.2%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.3%id, 2.2%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.6%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem:   4052276k total,  2586128k used,  1466148k free,   389208k buffers
Swap:  4200956k total,0k used,  4200956k free,  1929952k cached

from show channels:(was the same before and after top was run)
12 active channels
6 active calls

Would any of the guru's here say that this was good, bad, middle of the
road, not enough info to tell?  At the time I copied this there were 5
active calls in show channels.

This server is exhibiting some strange behavior and I was starting to
think it may be system overload.  I find this hard to accept given the
specs but, hey I don't know everything!
some info from /proc/cpuinfo:
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
cpu family  : 15
model   : 35
model name  : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 180
stepping: 2
cpu MHz : 2411.130
cache size  : 1024 KB

some info from /proc/meminfo:
MemTotal:  4052276 kB
MemFree:   1469356 kB
Buffers:388196 kB
Cached:1927548 kB
SwapCached:  0 kB
Active: 893644 kB
Inactive:  1523168 kB
HighTotal:   0 kB
HighFree:0 kB
LowTotal:  4052276 kB
LowFree:   1469356 kB
SwapTotal: 4200956 kB
SwapFree:  4200956 kB
Dirty: 228 kB
Writeback:   0 kB

Hardware RAID 5
on-motherboard gigE
connected through Cisco switch

On inbound calls I lose the incoming audio after a couple minutes,
outbound audio is always good, then after a while inbound audio
magically starts up again. this happens on maybe 10% of calls at its
worst. I have looked at the possibility of NAT issues and do not believe
that to be the case.

I have noticed that the memory usage climbs steadily but I believe that
is the kernel as top show no process with more than 0.4% memory usage.
Although when I rebooted (yes, an act of desperation) over the weekend
the amount of calls with this problem dropped dramatically along with
total memory usage which is slowly climbing again.  Started at about
1gig on Saturday morning and is now at the 2.6gig shown above in top.

This box typically does around 35,000 minutes of calls each month with a
couple "busy" periods each day during weekdays.  Normally no more than
10 to 12 calls at one time.

provider-->T1 to Cisco router-->Asterisk-->phones

The router is doing NAT and routing all traffic from a specific IP to
the asterisk box and dropping everything from any other IP.
canreinvite is set to no on the sip trunk and all the phones.

One thing that may be related is that when I ssh into this box it takes
a full minute respond after the pass phrase is typed in.  Could this be 
related or am I just grasping at straws?


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Re: [asterisk-users] Sip calls drop one leg after about 2 minutes

2008-01-11 Thread John Millican

Doug wrote:

At 14:54 1/10/2008, John Millican wrote:
 >Hello all,
 >I know this has been discussed before but I am not finding the thread on
 >voip-info or site:lists.digium.com through google.
 >
 >I have a site with * ver. 1.4.15 (started out as 1.4.2 or so) running on
 >openSuSE 10.2, Dual core AMD Opteron, purely SIP.
 >I haver been experiencing a problem where after about 2 min 10 seconds
 >to 2 minutes 18 seconds incoming audio stops.  The call is still up but
 >no inbound audio. At first I thought the calls was dropping completely
 >but that is not the case. iirc there was a similar problem a while back
 >in * versions.  I looked on voip-info but did not find anything that
 >appeared to be the same issue.  This does not happen on all calls, maybe
 >4 or 5% of calls.
 >
 >I am not finding anything in the log files to tell me what is going on.
 >I am going to upgrade to 1.4.17 tonight and see if there is any
 >difference.  Any suggestions of what to look at or where to go (keep it
 >clean ;-) please) would be greatly appreciated.
 >Thanks in advance
 >JohnM

NAT?

http://www.google.com/search?q=Asterisk+dropped+calls+NAT 

I don't "think" it is a NAT problem as the call is established and is 
great for about 2 minutes then, only the one leg goes away.  Nat is 
being done by a Cisco router (model 1804???), and has all UDP traffic 
from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx frowarded to the inside asterisk IP address.
I have tried nat=yes and externip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in sip.conf but when i 
do that nothing works.  I will try this again over the weekend to 
confirm that I had it correct.

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[asterisk-users] Sip calls drop one leg after about 2 minutes

2008-01-10 Thread John Millican

Hello all,
I know this has been discussed before but I am not finding the thread on 
voip-info or site:lists.digium.com through google.


I have a site with * ver. 1.4.15 (started out as 1.4.2 or so) running on 
openSuSE 10.2, Dual core AMD Opteron, purely SIP.
I haver been experiencing a problem where after about 2 min 10 seconds 
to 2 minutes 18 seconds incoming audio stops.  The call is still up but 
no inbound audio. At first I thought the calls was dropping completely 
but that is not the case. iirc there was a similar problem a while back 
in * versions.  I looked on voip-info but did not find anything that 
appeared to be the same issue.  This does not happen on all calls, maybe 
4 or 5% of calls.


I am not finding anything in the log files to tell me what is going on.
I am going to upgrade to 1.4.17 tonight and see if there is any 
difference.  Any suggestions of what to look at or where to go (keep it 
clean ;-) please) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
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Re: [asterisk-users] noun-verb vs verb-noun aka dogs black vs black dogs

2007-12-19 Thread John Millican
On Wednesday December 19 2007 6:09 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:47:39PM -0800, Steve Edwards wrote:
> > This only "works" because you are closed to the alternative. The
> > alternative (verb-noun) works fine for the above referenced applications
> > and many more. Do you want to "tally" the number of users of applications
> > that use noun-verb instead of verb-noun? Is there a reason verb-noun
> > works fine for them and not for us?
>
> OK, here's a small usability test to your idea:
>
> Here's a partial list of actions from asterisk 1.4.
> Which of them is supported by your hypothetical MGCP device?
> (no cheating, please)
>
> active
> add
> answer
> audit
> autoanswer
> boost
> clear
> convert
> del
> deltree
> dial
> dumphtml
> flash
> get
> hangup
> logoff
> mute
> put
> reload
> remove
> save
> send
> set
> show
> showkey
> transfer
> unmute

Okay I have to put my 2 cents in now can't resist any longer even though it 
may only be worth 0.5 cents.
In MY opinion, consistency is first and formost.  I can learn almost any 
command struture IF i put my mind to it and I want to do so.  What is hard 
for me is changing in mid stream. having said that I always liked a drill down 
structure.  Big idea first, followed by category of idea, followed by.. and 
so on till you get the the exact single item that you are looking for.  A US 
based example:
show world north_america us state nh capitol
Gives:
Concord  
You could easily do :
show world
giving all the continents
show world north_america
giving all countries in North America
and so on down the line.
To ME and maybe only me, this make since, object world knows of continents, 
object continents knows of countries, object countries knows of state, object 
state knows of capitols.
Easy for programmers, users and computers alike.
again just my opinion.
JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] X100P Fxo card headaches

2007-12-11 Thread John Millican
See Inline

On Tuesday December 11 2007 2:20 pm, Jonn R Taylor wrote:
> The old x100p cards where 5 volt pci cards. I had this same problem and it
> was the type of pci slot that I had the card plugged into.
>
> Jonn
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Boczko
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] X100P Fxo card headaches
>
> Hello List,
>
> Thanks for the replies...currently
>
> Still doing the same after adding channel=1 to the /etc/zaptel.conf
>
> my zapata.conf looks like
>
> orange:~# more /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf
> [trunkgroups]
> [channels]
> usecallerid=yes
> hidecallerid=no
> callwaiting=no
> threewaycalling=yes
> transfer=yes
> echocancel=yes
> echotraining=yes
> context=incoming
> signaling=fxs_ks
> group=1
> channel=>1
I believe this should be channel=1 

JohnM

>
> orange:~#
>
> Im getting pretty sure now that its the card, i borrowed a TDM400B
> (the 3port model) from a friend, and it came up just fine (with a
> quick change to zaptel.conf and zapata.conf)im thinking. duff
> card
>
> Ive got a linksys SPA-3102 on order to replace this card...
>
> but i would still like to confirm if it is the card thats duff or
> something with my config, more of a "geeky pride" excercise than
> anything else.
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
> On 11/12/2007, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris Boczko wrote:
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > Im just dipping my feet into the asterisk world, and im having major
> > > fxo problems
> > >
> > > Im running Asterisk (from svn) + libpri (from svn) + asterisk-addons
> > > (from svn) + asterisk gui (svn 1.4 branch) + zaptel (svn 1.4) on a
> > > Debian Etch box, with 1gb ram, running all of the services for my home
> > > server (web / db / music server etc), and i would like to run my PSTN
> > > line from Kingston Comms, but i can't get this box the recoginsie this
> > > line!
> > >
> > > The X100p is a cheap clone i got off ebay for a tenner, so im not
> > > expecting much, i know they have echo issues, but im going to upgrade
> > > to a SPA3012 / TDM400B when i have the cash.
> > >
> > > Ztcfg -vv reports
> > >
> > > orange:~# ztcfg -vv
> > >
> > > Zaptel Version: SVN-branch-1.4-r3374
> > > Echo Canceller: MG2
> > > Configuration
> > > ==
> > >
> > >
> > > Channel map:
> > >
> > > Channel 01: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 01)
> > >
> > > 1 channels to configure.
> > >
> > > orange:~#
> > >
> > >
> > > and my zaptel.conf file contains
> > >
> > > orange:~# more /etc/zaptel.conf
> > > fxsks=1
> > > loadzone=uk
> > > defaultzone=uk
> > > orange:~#
> > >
> > > but zap show status in the command line shows
> > >
> > > orange*CLI> zap show status
> > > Description  Alarms  IRQbpviol CRC4
> > > Fra Codi Options  LBO
> > > Wildcard X100P Board 1   OK  0  0  0
> > > CAS Unk  YEL  0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1)
> > > orange*CLI>
> > >
> > > and i think the Unk means unknown...?
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this line to work, ive
> > > followed every howto i can find, and google seems to be comming up
> > > short, as far as i can see, ztcfg should report the card as
> > > configured, but it isn't, and ive no idea why.
> > >
> > > Hope you can help
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Try adding channels=1 to the end of your zaptel.conf to assign the
> > settings you have made to a channel.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > --
> > Drew Gibson
> >
> > Systems Administrator
> > OANDA Corporation
> > www.oanda.com



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[asterisk-users] Sip 1.4.x DTMF detection not working

2007-11-29 Thread John Millican
Hello 
I have a setup where i have 2 asterisk servers connected over the public 
internet with plenty of bandwidth, NAT on one side only.  If i use IAX 
between the two *'s dtmf is flawless.  If I use SIP, DTMF detection is around 
30% or less.  I have an exten to dial into and check DTMF: 

exten => NPANXX,1,Answer(); (actual number blanked for privacy)
exten => NPANXX,n,Read(userChoice|ogm/intro|4||1|4);
exten => NPANXX,n, SayDigits(${userChoice});
exten => NPANXX,n,Hangup();

When i dial in and use IAX between the servers i always get all 4 digits, If I 
dial in using SIP between the two servers with dtmfmode=rfc2833 or 
dtmfmode=inband I MIGHT get 1 or 2 digits.  If i use dtmf=info and I dial 
slowly I usually get 4 correct digits, but not consistently enough to call it 
good, maybe 85%. If I dial 1 2 3 4 quickly I get 1122 or 1223 or the like.

I would like to use SIP as the voice quality "seems" to be better, matter of 
opinion I am sure but...

Both Asterisk's are 1.4.x on SUSE 10.2 x86_64 kernel 2.6.18.2-34
AMD opteron Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212 
and
Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 180
2GIG memory

I have searched voip-info and google and didn't find anything that looked 
relevant, maybe just my search words.  I do seem to remember something on the 
list about this a couple months ago but I can not find it or I am remembering 
incorrectly.  
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
JohnM




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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Speakerphone

2007-11-12 Thread John Millican
On Monday November 12 2007 1:50 pm, Doug wrote:
> At 08:38 11/12/2007, Eric Jacksch wrote:
>  >Hello all,
>  >
>  >We're using a lot of the linksys phones, and while user feedback is
>  >generally positive, the speakerphone leaves a bit to be desired.
>  >
>  >For those of you using the polycom desk phones, how do you find the
>  > built-in speakerphone?
>  >
>  >Thanks,
>  >Eric
>
> Excellent speakerphone.  Extremely cumbersome to
> configure.
>
I do not understand how you can say that the Polycoms are  "Extremely 
cumbersome to configure".   I find them rather nice.  Once you have one 
working config it is very easy to copy that config over to the mac address 
files for the other phones that you have and only change the per phone bits.  
Set up a site wide sip.cfg and then use phone-(macaddress).cfg files for the 
individual settings for each phone. real nice when you have more than a 
couple phones to configure.
It is not my intention to start any war here just giving my 2 cents worth.
JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Speakerphone

2007-11-12 Thread John Millican
On Monday November 12 2007 9:38 am, Eric Jacksch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We're using a lot of the linksys phones, and while user feedback is
> generally positive, the speakerphone leaves a bit to be desired.
>
> For those of you using the polycom desk phones, how do you find the
> built-in speakerphone?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

I have found the polcom speaker phone to be very good on the 320's, 330's, and 
the 501's.  Clear clean voice even in relatively noisy areas.
JohnM


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[asterisk-users] ABE, Sangoma, T-1 no recognizing calls

2007-10-26 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I have a setup of ABE  on rPath linux,Sangoma A101D, and a T-1 line (Not PRI) 
which is all happily coexisting and all lights are green.
The T-1 comes in from the world into a "Shark Box" which splits the T into 
384K data and 6 channels voice.  The data side is working great.  The voice 
side, not so great.  It was originally broken out to 6 pots line and Verizon 
came back and swapped cards in the shark and now it is a T-1 out.  Wanrouter, 
zaptel and asterisk are all apparently happy.  When I place a call to * I 
hear ring on the calling side but do not ever see anything in happen on the * 
side.  When I try to call out i get:
Executing Dial("SIP/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-ab5012d0", "zap/3/603xxx") in new 
stack
-- Called 3/603xxx
And nothing else, at one time I was getting a zap/answered line but no more.

Relevent zapata.conf
[channels]
context=default
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=yes
usecallingpres=yes
callwaitingcallerid=yes
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
canpark=yes
cancallforward=yes
callreturn=yes
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=yes
relaxdtmf=yes
rxgain=0.0
txgain=0.0
group=1
callgroup=1
pickupgroup=1

immediate=no

;Sangoma A101 port 1 [slot:8 bus:3 span: 1]
context=from-pstn
group=0
signalling=fxo_ls
channel => 1-6

zaptel.conf
loadzone=us
defaultzone=us

#Sangoma A101 port 1 [slot:8 bus:3 span: 1]
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
fxols=1-6

Extensions.conf
[from-pstn]
exten => _X.,1,Dial(zap/3/603xxx);

Very simple setup at this moment, nothing fancy.  I am able to dial in via sip 
and asterisk answers and send the call to the from-pstn context at which 
point i see Executing Dial(blah, blah) in new stack;
I believe at this time that the problem is in the setup of the shark box.  
Verizon tells me that there end is good and the T-1 is esf, B8ZS, loop start. 
But I thought I would ask the list for some opinions before I started 
pointing the finger.
Thank you for any help 
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Video Conference

2007-10-22 Thread John Millican


> John Millican wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I am looking at doing some video conferencing with SIP.  I was hoping to
> > get some early pointers from any one that is currently doing this.  I
> > have been all over goggle and voip-info and there is a ton of anecdotal
> > information but, I was hoping for more specifics of what people are
> > actually using that works and even some of what hasn't worked so that I
> > can stay away.  What I am considering at this point is hacking up my own
> > solution using off the shelf equipment.  Decent web camera, Polycom
> > conference phone(maybe if the budget holds) and a large wide screen LCD
> > monitor all connected to *
> > Sound reasonable or am I living a pipe dream?
> > JohnM
> >
On Monday October 22 2007 9:32 am, SIP wrote:
> Direct single line video conferencing via SIP is actually pretty
> straightforward and works rather well.
>
> Multipoint conferencing is where you get into a bit of a mess.  There
> are precious few products out there that claim multipoint SIP video
> conferencing capability, and we've had no luck so far with any of it
> being what one might consider straightforward.
>
> N.

Thanks for the responce.  Have you had any luck at all even with what one 
might not consider straight forward?  I am trying to avoid paying the $1000+ 
per location needed to purchase something from say Polycom or Tandberg.  I 
would even be willing to do something along the lines of a web app for video 
and some how tie that together with the voice through Asterisk.  Just don't 
want to look like one of the old dubbed over Japanese movies from when I was 
a kid (lips move and then a couple seconds later you hear voice).
JohnM




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[asterisk-users] Video Conference

2007-10-22 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I am looking at doing some video conferencing with SIP.  I was hoping to get 
some early pointers from any one that is currently doing this.  I have been 
all over goggle and voip-info and there is a ton of anecdotal information 
but, I was hoping for more specifics of what people are actually using that 
works and even some of what hasn't worked so that I can stay away.  What I am 
considering at this point is hacking up my own solution using off the shelf 
equipment.  Decent web camera, Polycom conference phone(maybe if the budget 
holds) and a large wide screen LCD monitor all connected to *
Sound reasonable or am I living a pipe dream?
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Affordable SIP Trunk for Home PBX ?

2007-10-13 Thread John Millican
On Saturday October 13 2007 12:47 pm, Doug Lytle wrote:
> John Millican wrote:
> > On Saturday October 13 2007 12:09 pm, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > Be sure to read the fine print as most of the "unlimited" plans do
> > actually have a limit on usage (even the ones I offer).  Some are out in
> > the open some
>
> Then don't advertise it as *unlimited*
>
> Seems simple, doesn't it?
>
> Doug

Doug,
You are absolutely correct, it should be simple but... When you are trying to 
market a product and are competing in a market littered with limited 
unlimited plans and knowing that these are the key words that a lot of people 
look for, the other partner in the company said "we have to have an unlimited 
plan". Long hard battle ensued but we came to an agreement.  Okay, but we 
will call it the Unlimited3000 (yes pretty cheesy I know) plan and spell it 
out clearly in the contract also.   Also if you left the rest of the post in 
you would see that I said I usually steer people away from these plans into a 
per minute as most people do not get close to 3000 minutes a month.  Yes, 
there are those that do but not the majority.
My apologies if anyone feels this is to close to a commercial post but I felt 
I should answer. 
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Affordable SIP Trunk for Home PBX ?

2007-10-13 Thread John Millican

On Saturday October 13 2007 12:09 pm, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> Steve Edwards wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> >> I have been using axVoice.com for some about 9 month to a year now and
> >> their service is pretty damn good.  For home users they have unlimited
> >> plan for around 22.00-24.00 U.S. per month.
> >
> > I think the "pay as you go" plans make more sense for most people -- why
> > do you think the vendors push the flat rate plans?
> >
> > At $25.00 per month, you'd have to be on the phone for about an hour a
> > day for it to be cheaper than a $0.015 per minute plan.
>
> True, but I work from home, have a wife and 4 kids with friends and
> family all over the U.S. so it makes more sense for me.
>
> Good point though, Steve.
>
> ---
>
> Lee

Be sure to read the fine print as most of the "unlimited" plans do actually 
have a limit on usage (even the ones I offer).  Some are out in the open some 
are very well hidden and some others do not even publish the number of 
minutes that will get you moved to a business rate or possibly even canceled.  
Think of it from a business perspective, You would not want your clients to 
use so many minutes that it ended up costing you money, would you?  So what 
the provider has to do is settle on an average of all the customers so that 
some can use a few more minutes than they pay for and some use less than they 
pay for, the group in the middle make up the profits.  Even under this 
scenerio there is still a point where the provider starts to loose money.
This is why I usually guide customers to a per minute rate so that it is 
fairer to both sides. Everybody knows what the rules are.  Then again there 
are those that like the convenience of writting the same check every month.

JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] Opinions on Release Numbering

2007-10-10 Thread John Millican
On Wednesday October 10 2007 2:15 pm, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Russell Bryant wrote:
> > I proposed calling the release candidates 1.6.3-rc1, 1.6.3-rc2, etc.
> >
> > What is your opinion?  I certainly want the release naming to be as
> > obvious as possible.
I would say the rc-1, rc-2 is about as obvious as it gets and would get my 
vote.
JohnM
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[asterisk-users] Sine Dialer, GNU dialer, VICIDial and others slightly OT?

2007-10-08 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I have a requirement to setup a predictive dialer for a customers call center. 
I am asking for pros and cons of the different dialers available for 
Asterisk.  If you are going to send marketing material send it to my  e-mail 
directly please and not to the list.  I was hoping to get the opinions of any 
one using any of these dialers and what they liked and didn't like, ease of 
integration with asterisk, stability, and such.   
Thank You for any help
JohnM




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Re: [asterisk-users] How to write a function with a return value in Asterisk

2007-08-08 Thread John Millican

On Wednesday August 08 2007 12:10 pm, Mike wrote:
> I can be a bit slow sometimes, but you said that it's not possible, and on
> the other hand told me to write my own function (which appears to
> contradict the first statement).
>
> Your example of the use of a function is exactly what I need (Create a
> function and Dial(SIP/${MY_FUNKY_NEW_FUNC(ooga)})) , what I don't know is
> how to actually write the function with a return value (and Googling this
> doesn't get me any relevant result, apparently).
>
> I'd be most thankful for some link to a page that shows how to write such a
> function in Asterisk.
>
> Mike
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Kohlsmith
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:59
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to write a function with a return
> valueinAsterisk
>
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007 11:41:38 am Mike wrote:
> > But what if I wanted to write my own custom application for one
> > specific purpose, I can't set a return value?  It's not possible at all?
>
> Not possible, to my knowledge.
>
> > Let me put it this way then, if I needed to have some processing all
> > done in the same Asterisk priority (in my case, I want to use the "hint"
> > priority but I need to find the value of a variable and use it in the
> > same line).
>
> Create a function and Dial(SIP/${MY_FUNKY_NEW_FUNC(ooga)})
>
> > Exten => 12345,hint,Dial(SIP/${A}) ; I need to know ${A} first, but I
> > can't know before this line is called (it's very DB driven).
>
> Give the function method a try; that's about the only way I can think of
> doing something like that...  Note that if it's a very DB driven system,
> you can use func_odbc to do what you want by declaring an SQL statement as
> a function.
>
> -A.
>
Asterisk will listen on stdin  if you have your agi code write the var and 
value out to stdout asterisk will then be able touse that var in the dial 
plan. this is how I do this in a C++ app that i use often:
fprintf(stdout,"EXEC SETVAR RESERVED=1 \n");
then in the dial plan I look at the value of ${RESERVED} and use a gotif to do 
what needs to be done based on that value.
JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] Outbound dialing

2007-08-08 Thread John Millican
On Wednesday August 08 2007 8:28 am, Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hi Drew. Thanks for the tips. My Line 1 works as I'd like it to, and I
> could be wrong, but I don't think changing the dialplan there will help. I
> really just want to be able to dial local phone calls (7 digits) and have
> it go out the SPA3102, without having to dial twice. This is a snip what I
> have so far.
>
> extentions.conf
> exten => _NXX,1,Dial(SIP/201/${EXTEN},20)
> exten => _NXX,2,Hangup
>
> sip.conf
> [201]
> type=friend
> username=x
> secret=x
> host=dynamic
> context=sip
> nat=yes
> canreinvite=yes
> qualify=yes
> subscribecontext=localextensions
> dtmfmode=rfc2833
> vmexten=voicemail
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
> allow=gsm
>
> On the SPA (in the "PSTN Line" tab)
> Dial Plan 1:  ()
> Dial Plan 2:  S0<:255>
>
> DialPlan 1 is just what I have for now
> DialPlan 2 is my extention 255, with a PSTN call comes in it rings my SIP
> phone.
>
> I set my VoIP Answer Delay to 0 (from 1, I also tried 5 some time ago) and
> I set the SPA To PSTN Gain to 5 and now 15.
>
> With things the way I have them now, when I dial a local number, I get a
> single DTMF tone on the phoneline, not sure what digit it is.
>

I believe you want to put the dial plan in line 1 and reference gw0 there.
 >On the SPA (in the "PSTN Line" tab)  
Should be in line 1 tab 
 > Dial Plan 1: ()  
Dial plan should be in line 1 dial plan:
normal-dial-plan| xxx<:@gw0>|[49]11<:@gw0>|some-more-dial-plan-if-needed
notice where the < is in relation to the digits
this will send all seven digit calls out the PSTN and also all 411 and 911 
calls out the PSTN line and also 411 and 911 calls.  If you leave the PSTN 
dial plan as factory default it should work.
If memory serves.
JohnM



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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom 320 - Can it actually be configured?

2007-08-01 Thread John Millican
On Wednesday August 01 2007 5:49 pm, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Don't know about the 320, but we provisioned the 301's. They're
> provisioning is basically the same as the 501's and 601's. What problems
> are you having?
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:41 PM
> > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom 320 - Can it actually be configured?
> >
> > Just got one of these.  Horrible to program.
> > Trying to key in the FTP server.  Won't even
> > remember the info after rebooting.
> >
> > Anybody know the proper way to beat on this
> > stupid beast so it will work?
> >
They provision exactly as do the 501, 330, 601 and such.  Search voip-info.org 
and you will find several nice documents on how to do this.
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Royalty for On Hold Music ?

2007-07-31 Thread John Millican
On Tuesday July 31 2007 4:44 pm, Joe acquisto wrote:
> . . .
>
> > Even if you can find non-original-artist recordings of such music, the
> > *compositions* are registered with BMI and ASCAP, and you'll need
> > blanket licenses to play them.  (Well, if you only wanted one or two
> > tracks, you might negotiate specific licenses, but I'm not sure it
> > would be cheaper.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
>
> So, if, for instance, someone were to "pipe in" some broadcast stations,
> for MOH, that would be a copyright violation?
>
> Not that I know how to do that, with *, off the top of my head.
>
> joe a
>
IANAL or even close to one.  Just grabbing the music form a broadcast station 
and rebroadcasting is technically illegal, at least in the US.  What I have 
been told is that you would first have to check with the broadcast station, 
sign an agreement with them, and depending on the scope of their coverage, as 
in geographic, you might be able to use their station.  It is my 
understanding that radio stations pay a license fee based on the 
coverage/market area. You may have to pay them the difference between what 
they pay for the coverage of the station and the global coverage that a PBX 
could potentially have. 
As a side note there have been several examples posted in the past of how to 
"pipe in" a music source.

JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom IP 4000 Soundstation SIP Conference Phone Question

2007-07-23 Thread John Millican
On Monday July 23 2007 9:26 am, Matt wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone here ever used a Polycom IP 4000 Soundstation SIP
> Conference Phone with asterisk?  If so, how well does it work and how
> does it sound?
>

I have one at a customer site and they are very happy with it.   Works well, 
sound quality is good, typical Polycom speaker phone sound.  You may have to 
train user not to yell though.

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Re: [asterisk-users] RTCP NTP Clock skew

2007-06-28 Thread John Millican
On Thursday June 28 2007 1:19 pm, Jared Smith wrote:
> On 6/28/07, John Millican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Would i be correct in "assuming" that if i pull a copy of
> > 1.4.5 from digium this weekend that this message will go away?
>
> No... you'd have to pull the latest code from the 1.4 branch using
> Subversion, or wait for 1.4.6 to be released.
>
> -Jared
Thank you for the info.  I missinterpreted Russell's comments to by that it 
would be in the 1.4 stable, silly me.

Internal RTCP NTP clock skew detected: lsr=2362715969, now=2362741181, 
dlsr=65500 (0:999ms), diff=40288

So what sort of badness will this be causing, if it is not fixed in 1.4, by me 
waiting until 1.6?


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[asterisk-users] RTCP NTP Clock skew

2007-06-28 Thread John Millican
Hello All,
I have Asterisk 1.4.5 running on a SuSE 10.3 x86_64  2.6.18.2-34
I upgraded from 1.4.2 to 1.4.5 on sunday the 24 of june and since have been 
getting:
Internal RTCP NTP clock skew detected: lsr=1402479300, now=1402675136, 
dlsr=196500 (2:998ms), diff=664
I see an entry in Mantis that Russell fixed code so that this will not show 
when it shouldn't. Would i be correct in "assuming" that if i pull a copy of 
1.4.5 from digium this weekend that this message will go away?  Also, just to 
show off my ignorance, what is this message telling me?  Is this simply a 
deference between unix time-t and NTP timestamps and therefore nothing of 
much concern?
JohnM


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Re: [asterisk-users] Linksys SPA941

2007-06-14 Thread John Millican
On Thursday June 14 2007 1:12 pm, Matt wrote:
> We had several of these when we were first playing around with Asterisk.
> They are somewhat nice.   The audio quality left some to be desired,
> however, we did not have a hold button issue.
>
> On 6/14/07, Shad Mortazavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dear Group,
> >
> > I have just purchased two Linksys SPA941 and flashed these to the latest
> > firmware.
> >
> > Everything works well except for the Hold button? Has anyone else
> > experienced the same issue? What was the solution?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Shad Mortazavi

I just installed 64 of these for a customer and the hold works on the ones 
that have been tested.  We are not on the latest firmware yet though.  I will 
be testing that tomorrow.
John M

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Re: [asterisk-users] DISABLE 9?

2007-04-15 Thread John Millican
On Sunday April 15 2007 5:48 am, JNA wrote:
> Is there a way to make it so you do not have to dial 9 by default to dial a
> outside number? I would like it if we could just dial the number any
> pointers?
>

In a number of my ATA's and IP Phones I have a delay in the pattern match so 
that if the user dials 4 digits the phone waits for 1 second to see if there 
will be a 5th or more digits.  This eliminates the need to dial a 9 or a 0 to 
get outside dial tone.  Yes 1 second can be a long time but if you don't make 
a big deal over it when talking to the users they usually do not notice and 
are more focused on the fact that they do not have to do anything to 
distinguish between extension dial and outside dial.

John M


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Re: [asterisk-users] SPA 3102

2006-10-12 Thread John Millican
On Thursday October 12 2006 4:15 pm, Dave Cotton wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 21:30 +0200, Csibra Gergo wrote:
> > Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6:58:57 PM, Tim wrote:
> > > I've read alot of comments on the SPA-3000, many if not all saying they
> > > had echo issues, but I've not seen anyone comment on the SPA-3102. Does
> > > anyone have any comments or issues with these?
> >
> > Well, I have had echo issues. Then I find out the echo cancellation on
> > PSTN line is switched off by default. I switched on, and no echo any
> > more :)
>
> I have had echo with the SPA3000 but I switched to Global impedance on
> the FXO and since then clear as a bell.

I have several of these in the field with "residential" users and no 
complaints.
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Re: [asterisk-users] Home Hardware SIP Proxy with use of POTS in Emergency

2006-10-09 Thread John Millican
On Monday October 09 2006 6:53 pm, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> Does anyone know of any ATA devices (Linksys, Dlink, Cisco, etc) that will
> fail over to POTS for an emergency call? I'd like to route any call except
> a 911 call over SIP or IAX, but any 911 call should be routed out over
> POTS. If this is not an option, I'm also open to devices that will fail
> over to GSM to make the emergency call. I apologize if this topic has
> already been covered before.
>
> -brandon
Sipura 3000 or 3102 to start with I am sure there are others
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Re: [asterisk-users] balance anouncement

2006-09-01 Thread John Millican
On Friday September 01 2006 10:19 am, ram wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks for the quick reply
>
> any documents to read to achive this
> or any examples would be great to read
>
> Ram
>
> On 9/1/06, John Millican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday September 01 2006 9:27 am, ram wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > how can i do balance anouncement by using asterisk
> > >
> > > take example, i have table balance , user name 9, balance 200$
> > >
> > > user dial *98 or what ever, then i need anouce his balance is 200$, by
> > > reading from that row
> > >
> > > any clues how can i achive this or is this possible ?
> > >
> > > Ram
> >
> > Create an AGI script that does a db look up for the ballance and then
> > pass the
> > result back to Cepstral or Festival or your favorite text to speech
> > software.
> > John M
> >
Try google or voip-info.org and search for 
Asterisk AGI  should yeid some good results.
AGI can be called from the dial plan and written in your favorite language 
i.e. PHP, C++, Perl, C, Java
or start here:
 http://home.cogeco.ca/~camstuff/agi.html
 http://asterisk.drunkcoder.com/agi.cgi 

John M

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Re: [asterisk-users] balance anouncement

2006-09-01 Thread John Millican
On Friday September 01 2006 9:27 am, ram wrote:
> Hi
>
> how can i do balance anouncement by using asterisk
>
> take example, i have table balance , user name 9, balance 200$
>
> user dial *98 or what ever, then i need anouce his balance is 200$, by
> reading from that row
>
> any clues how can i achive this or is this possible ?
>
> Ram
Create an AGI script that does a db look up for the ballance and then pass the 
result back to Cepstral or Festival or your favorite text to speech software.
John M

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Re: [asterisk-users] can not get ${LEN(VAR)} and greater than ">" to work for me

2006-08-27 Thread John Millican
On Saturday August 26 2006 11:15 am, Matt Riddell (IT) wrote:
> John Millican wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am trying to test if the length of a dialed number is greater than 7. 
> > When i use:
> > exten => 1,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${numdial})}">"7"]?dialout:nodial);
> > and I dial an 11 digit number i.e. 1 800 xxx 
> > i get this in the console:
> > Executing GotoIf("SIP/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-006ca720", "0?dialout:nodial") in
> > new stack
> >
> > indicating that the number was not greater than 7.
> > if i use:
> > exten => 1,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${numdial})}"="11"]?dialout:nodial);
> > and dial the same 1 800 xxx 
> > i get:
> >
> > Executing GotoIf("SIP/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-006ca720", "1?dialout:nodial") in
> > new stack
> > indicating that the length of number dialed was equal to 11 digits.
> > so equal to works and greater than does not?
> > Can any one see what I am doing wrong?
> > *  version 1.2.9.1
>
> Maybe string comparison because of the speech marks?

Thank You Matt and Ira
The speech marks/quotes were the problem. 
Matt sorry about the earlier direct mail used R instead of L for the reply.
John M

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[asterisk-users] can not get ${LEN(VAR)} and greater than ">" to work for me

2006-08-26 Thread John Millican
Hello all,
I am trying to test if the length of a dialed number is greater than 7.  When 
i use:
exten => 1,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${numdial})}">"7"]?dialout:nodial);
and I dial an 11 digit number i.e. 1 800 xxx 
i get this in the console:
Executing GotoIf("SIP/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-006ca720", "0?dialout:nodial") in new 
stack

indicating that the number was not greater than 7.
if i use:
exten => 1,n,GoToIf($["${LEN(${numdial})}"="11"]?dialout:nodial);
and dial the same 1 800 xxx 
i get:

Executing GotoIf("SIP/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-006ca720", "1?dialout:nodial") in new 
stack
indicating that the length of number dialed was equal to 11 digits.
so equal to works and greater than does not?
Can any one see what I am doing wrong?
*  version 1.2.9.1

TIA
John M

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Re: [asterisk-users] Sipura 3000 dialplan strings.

2006-08-22 Thread John Millican
On Tuesday August 22 2006 7:24 am, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a dialplan that dials via PSTN for:
>
> All eight-digit calls that start with 9
> All 911 calls
> All calls that start with 424 (the local exchange)
>
> I haven't tested 911 -- for obvious reasons.  I may do so after I feel
> more confident.  I've got the starts-with-9 working fine.  But the local
> exchange stuff isn't working, and I'm confused.  Here's a snippet of my
> dialplan:
>
> [lots deleted]|<9,:>xxx< :@gw0>|424< :@gw0>)

> It does dial 424 numbers, but they go straight through SIP.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
Ken,
Just a hunch but it may be the space in the dial string between the< and the : 

Your string:
<9,:>xxx< :@gw0>|424< :@gw0>)
corrected:
<9,:>xxx<:@gw0>|424<:@gw0>)
as I said just a guess.
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Re: [asterisk-users] Cepstral and Asterisk

2006-08-16 Thread John Millican
On Wednesday August 16 2006 7:01 pm, Don wrote:
> Has anyone used Cepstral for text to speech before? I am testing the demo
> and it seems to take about 20 seconds for the speech to start... On a
> 3.4Ghz 2GB machine...
>
> Thanks,
> Don
Don,
I have been using Cepstral for about a year now and it has worked very well. 
It starts speaking almost immediately. You definitely know it is a computer 
voice but thats okay for my application. 
The following is swift.agi that I found on voip-info.org (I cant remember the 
author or I would credit him here, my apologies.)  The last line documents 
how to use.
##
#!/bin/sh 

#Assign the value sent from the exten=> line to "$text" so it can be used 
below 
text=`echo $*` 

#Set $stdin to something 
stdin="0" 

while [ "$stdin" != "" ] 
 do 
   read stdin 
if [ "$stdin" != "" ] 
 then 
  stdin2=`echo $stdin | sed -e 's/: /=/' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/$/"/' -e 
's/=/="/'` 
  eval `echo $stdin2` 
 fi 
 done 

calleridnum=`echo $agi_callerid | cut -f2 -d\< | cut -f1 -d\>` 
calleridname=`echo $agi_callerid | cut -f1 -d\< ` 

/opt/swift/bin/swift -o /tmp/$agi_uniqueid.wav -p 
audio/channels=1,audio/sampling-rate=8000 " $text " 

#Now, tell asterisk to play that file 
echo "stream file /tmp/$agi_uniqueid #" 

#Read the reply from asterisk to our command 
read stream 

#Clean up our mess and delete that file 
rm /tmp/$agi_uniqueid.wav 

exit 0 

#  exten=> s,1,agi(swift.agi|This is some text\, which needs to be 
converted to speech.) 
##

I have used this (on a very low call volume obviously) on as low end a machine 
as PII 400 with 512 meg ram.
Hope this helps
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asking for phone number to dial

2006-06-23 Thread John Millican
Instead of Background() use Read().  this will allow for any number of digits. 
example:
exten => 1234, 1, Read(var_to_use|prompt_name|number_of_digits_to_accept);
;then use a goto based on the value of var_to_use.
exten => 1234,2 GoToIf($[${var_to_use} = 1]?new_exten,1:3);
 this way you are sent to an extension based on what the user dials.  this 
will fall through till it matches.
John M

On Friday June 23 2006 6:18 pm, Anthony Cennami wrote:
> Where there is a will, there's a way:
>
> Assuming you only had one DID, you could:
>
> - Use an auto attendant
> - Use a dialplan timeout that dropped to DISA (not so nice)
> - Use callerid based redirection (again, not so nice, but available)
> - Use a Voicemail breakout option (again, not so nice, but better than
> timeout)
> - Use a ToD based extension
>
> Probably a variety of other options, depending on the
> application/requirements/costs/etc.
>
>
>
> On 23 Jun 2006 22:08:20 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I thought Background() only allowed you one digit dialing while it's
> > playing.
> > Is this not the case?  I agree with the reply which said that you want to
> > use DISA, the only problem with DISA is that you have no way to use the
> > line
> > for answering regular calls.  Once you put the DISA command in the
> > dialplan,
> > you get the DISA dialtone for entering you code.  I suppose if you know
> > where
> > you will be calling from, you could code in a specific dialplan based on
> > your
> > callerid info, but that just seems kind of tedious just for being about
> > to dial out.
> >
> > Undrhil
> >
> > --- Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >  > The number "dialed" after Background
> > is stored in the EXTEN variable and can be used in the Dial application.
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Don
> > > Sent:
> >
> > Friday, June 23, 2006 5:29 PM
> >
> > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
> >
> > Discussion
> >
> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asking for phone number to dial
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > background just accepts input while other sounds...etc...are being
> >
> > played...
> >
> > > instead of waiting for something to end and then accept input.
> > >
> > > It doesn't store the number...etc...then add it to dial command for a
> >
> > zap
> >
> > > channel
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "T. Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > To: 
> > > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:19
> >
> > PM
> >
> > > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asking for phone number to dial
> > >
> > > > Isn't that what the Background() application does?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > "blah..."
> > > >
> > > >>From:
> >
> > "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > >>Reply-To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -
> >
> > Non-Commercial
> >
> > > >>Discussion
> > > >>To:
> >
> > 
> >
> > > >>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asking for
> >
> > phone number to dial
> >
> > > >>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:51:00 -0400
> > > >>
> > > >>Does
> >
> > anyone know where to find an example or able to provide an example of
> >
> > >>how to do the following:
> > > >>When asterisk answers a call...
> > > >>Ask
> >
> > for number to dial...then dial that number?
> >
> > > >>I am basically dialing into
> >
> > the asterisk box and then wanting it to take
> >
> > > >>the digits I enter and
> >
> > dial them on an outbound zap trunk...
> >
> > > >>I basically am just not sure
> >
> > how to have asterisk accept the digits and
> >
> > > >>then use them in the dial
> >
> > command...
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF Talk off

2006-06-20 Thread John Millican
I have looked at that as a solution but haven't been able to get the dtmf to 
work reliably.  When I dial a local call i get connected okay and can 
obviously connect to the second * box with out problem, the problem comes in 
trying to get the ${EXTEN} portion of the dial string
Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
 to the second * box.  It tends to not see the DTMF correctly for the number I 
want to call.  When I watch this on the CLI through SSH on the second box i 
see the call come in and go to the correct extension where it waits for 
digits to dial and I get sporadic results, sometimes no digits are recognized 
and sometimes 2 or 3, but never all correctly. I have tried increasing, and 
decreasing the wait in the dial string in my home * with no luck.  Any hints 
on how to get the 3000 and the * box to talk better?  If I could get this to 
work through the 3000 I would be a very happy camper as it would open up some 
possibilities that I can't do cost effectively otherwise.  I will start to 
route all local calls out the 3000 though for testing in the mean time.
Thanks for the ideas,
John M
On Tuesday June 20 2006 10:16 am, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Ok Now I understand. You mentioned you have an SPA-3000 in your inventory.
> That is what I use here and I do not load or use zap or pri modules. I use
> the 3000 as my fxo/fxs via sip on my local network. I have no cards in my
> computer. You could do the same for testing of your problem.
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, John Millican wrote:
> > Okay here goes,
> > I guess I misunderstood Doug's question about the far end interface. I
> > have no availability for high speed internet at my house to place a VoIP
> > call over. So, I have a standard phone plugged into the PAP2, The PAP2
> > plugs into the network at my house to which the asterisk box is also
> > connected,  the asterisk box has an FXO card that has the PSTN line
> > plugged into it, this is where the ZAP channel comes in.  when i dial a
> > local number asterisk simple dials the number out the pstn line.  If i
> > dial a long distance number, the * box dials a local phone number that I
> > have through my VoIP provider which is answered by an * box that I have
> > at a different location using a line in extensions.conf like:
> > Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
> > this way when the second * answers the phone it get the ${EXTEN} that I
> > actually dialed and dials it out over the cable connection.  I hope i was
> > a little clearer this time and sorry for the confusion.
> > John M
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF Talk off

2006-06-20 Thread John Millican
Okay here goes,
I guess I misunderstood Doug's question about the far end interface. I have no 
availability for high speed internet at my house to place a VoIP call over. 
So, I have a standard phone plugged into the PAP2, The PAP2 plugs into the 
network at my house to which the asterisk box is also connected,  the 
asterisk box has an FXO card that has the PSTN line plugged into it, this is 
where the ZAP channel comes in.  when i dial a local number asterisk simple 
dials the number out the pstn line.  If i dial a long distance number, the * 
box dials a local phone number that I have through my VoIP provider which is 
answered by an * box that I have at a different location using a line in 
extensions.conf like:
Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
this way when the second * answers the phone it get the ${EXTEN} that I 
actually dialed and dials it out over the cable connection.  I hope i was a 
little clearer this time and sorry for the confusion.
John M
On Monday June 19 2006 11:22 pm, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> this does not make any sense.
>
> How do you dial to a service provider from your * box?  Does it use PPP
> and IP?  And then you connect to another * box that is on a cable
> connection that receives the call over IP and then dials out to a voip
> provider?  How do any fxo devices come into this picture?  How does a
> zap channel come into this picture?
>
> John Millican wrote:
> > Doug,
> > The interface that i dial to is at my Service provider and am not sure
> > what they are using.  I dial out of my * box to a service provider number
> > which is answerd by an asterisk box that I have at another location on a
> > high speed cable connection, that box then dials the numberI ultimately
> > want to reach. I use an extensions.conf line at my home * such as:
> > Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
> > this works great and saves me a ton on call costs.
> > John
> >
> > On Monday June 19 2006 12:19 pm, Doug Crompton wrote:
> >> John,
> >>
> >>  You said you were using a PAP2.. what is the FXO interface at the (far)
> >> asterisk end?
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF Talk off

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Doug,
The PAP2 is single ethernet and 2 fxs.  I actually have a couple of these a 
SPA-3000, and a SPA 2102 (testing purposes).  these connect to asterisk over 
the network and * is the house PBX set to dial a local Voip Number  via the 
zap/PSTN,  which is routed to another * box on a cable connection that dials 
out over the cable back to the VoIP Provider and then routed to the world. 
this way i can still have the lower cost of VoIP while living in my back 
woods New Hampshire location where High speed is not available. I currently 
have three PSTN lines here at the house, 1 line for dial-up and 2 plain 
vanilla local only lines.
John
On Monday June 19 2006 5:28 pm, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Is the PAP2 an ethernet connected device to * ?  I was wondering why you
> were using zap if it were not an internal card?
>
> Doug
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, John Millican wrote:
> > Doug,
> > The interface that i dial to is at my Service provider and am not sure
> > what they are using.  I dial out of my * box to a service provider number
> > which is answerd by an asterisk box that I have at another location on a
> > high speed cable connection, that box then dials the numberI ultimately
> > want to reach. I use an extensions.conf line at my home * such as:
> > Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
> > this works great and saves me a ton on call costs.
> > John
> >
> > On Monday June 19 2006 12:19 pm, Doug Crompton wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > >  You said you were using a PAP2.. what is the FXO interface at the
> > > (far) asterisk end?
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: DTMF Talk off

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Matt,
Thank you very much! 
I am currently running 1.2.7.1 but will be upgrading to 1.2.9.1 this week. I 
will try  toneduration=200 first and let you/list know how well it worked.

I read in zapata.conf.sample where it says:
How long generated tones  (DTMF and MF) will be played on the channel (in 
milliseconds)
and did not realize that would have an effect on recognition.

Thanks again,
John M
On Monday June 19 2006 2:58 pm, Matt King wrote:
> With recent versions of *, you can increase the detection time in
> zapata.conf with the toneduration variable.
>
> The default setting is:
>
> toneduration=100
>
> We had the same problem and solved it by increasing this to 200.
>
> You can also increase the threshold volume for detection of DTMF by
> setting VPM_DEFAULT_DTMFTHRESHOLD in the relevant zaptel wctX.c and
> recompiling (though if you increase this too much you risk losing your
> ability to detect DTMF at all).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Matt.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] home routers

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Shaun,
I believe that there are 2 models of the WRT54GP2 as there was/is with the 
PAP2's one that is set for VONAGE and one that is not, typically referred to 
as the WRT54GP2-NA
John M
On Monday June 19 2006 3:37 pm, Shaun wrote:
> I'm looking for somehting like the standard house hold linksys/dlink
> router. Basically it needs to have at least 1x100mbit port, wireless G
> capabilitys and at least 1 x anolog voip/sip connection.  I've found
> linksys's WRT54GP2 which appears to do what i want.  Anybody use this? 
> Does it require vontage's service?  I'm looking for any recommendations.
>
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF Talk off

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Doug,
The interface that i dial to is at my Service provider and am not sure what 
they are using.  I dial out of my * box to a service provider number which is 
answerd by an asterisk box that I have at another location on a high speed 
cable connection, that box then dials the numberI ultimately want to reach.  
I use an extensions.conf line at my home * such as:
Dial(zap/1/ww${EXTEN});
this works great and saves me a ton on call costs.
John

On Monday June 19 2006 12:19 pm, Doug Crompton wrote:
> John,
>
>  You said you were using a PAP2.. what is the FXO interface at the (far)
> asterisk end?
>
> Doug
>
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF Talk off

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Doug,
thanks for the help.  I am using uLAW  and inband every where. I have tried
using 2833 and it did not appear to make any difference, better or worse.
this is why I was thinking that if I could increase the minimum required time
for a tone that it night help, I am just not sure where the best place top do
this is.  i thought I had seen a post about setting relaxdtmf to a value to
actually make dtmf detection stricter but i can not seam to find anything
other than 'yes' or 'no'.
John

Doug Crompton wrote:
> John,
>
>  Well I am certainly not an expert on this. I am using an SPA-3000 and I
> have not experienced this. I did have to go to inband on the fxo channel
> as rfc8322 did not work for ivr's when using Asterisk. I think you said
> you were using a linksys or sipura product for you fxo?? If that is the
> case using inband and the ulaw/alaw encoder for the fxo channel might
> help. Worth a try I guess. There are some rfc8322 issues that apparently
> will be addressed with a rewrite in the next makor version release.
>
> Doug
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, John Millican wrote:
> > Doug, I read that post and unfortunately it was not a solution.  I do not
> > believe it has to do with interstate as it happens intra state also.  Is
> > there any way to make DTMF detection stricter, ie require a longer
> > minimum tone length.  Assuming ( yes a dangerous practice) that the human
> > voice will not hold a DTMF sequence stable for very long, if I lengthen
> > the minimum required length I may be able to minimize the talk off.  What
> > do you think? Any suggestions?
> > John M
> >
> > Doug Crompton wrote:
> > > Check....
> > >
> > >
> > > http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2005-January/078141.ht
> > >ml
> > >
> > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, John Millican wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > I have seen some chatter again about DTMF.  I see most of the talk
> > > > about DTMF around not being able to get an external IVR to recognize
> > > > digits, not a big issue for me at this time but sill interesting.  My
> > > > issue though, is with talk off on a zap channel.  It seems to be
> > > > getting worse or maybe my patience is thinning.  All my calls go out
> > > > and come in pstn through an FXO as I do not have high speed available
> > > > here at home.  My Current setup is:
> > > >
> > > > Phone-->PAP2--> * --->PSTN--->Voip number to * at another
> > > > location(that has high speed)--->send to VoIP provider
> > > >
> > > > I read a post about talked about the length of the DTMFish sound.  I
> > > > also remeber seing something about relaxdtmf being set to something
> > > > other than yes or no, so I looked in chan_zap.c and found  relaxdtmf
> > > > in many places but it looked to my inexperienced eye that it could
> > > > only be set to 'yes' or 'no', but i did find some mention of
> > > > tonlength (at line 10858) followed that to zaptel.c (line 3357) where
> > > > it said :
> > > > if ((tdp.dtmf_tonelen > 4000 ) || (tdp.dtmf_tonelen < 10 ))
> > > > return -EINVAL
> > > > Which I am guessing means unless the dtmf is between these 2 values
> > > > ignore it. Any ideas what might happen if i increased the minimum
> > > > time value? if this is indeed what this is referring to?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Zapata.conf:
> > > > [channels]
> > > > callwaiting=yes
> > > > callwaitingcallerid=yes
> > > > threewaycalling=yes
> > > > transfer=yes
> > > > cancallforward=yes
> > > > busydetect=yes
> > > > busycount=6
> > > > echocancel=128
> > > > echocancelwhenbridged=yes
> > > > echotraining=yes
> > > > rxgain=0
> > > > txgain=0
> > > > immediate=no
> > > > context=default
> > > > signalling=fxs_ks
> > > > channel => 1
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > > zaptel.conf:
> > > > loadzone = us
> > > > fxsks=1
> > > > fxsks=2

> > > >
> > > > extensions.conf:
> > > > exten => s,1,  NoOp(${CALLERID} time ${DATETIME});
> > > > exten => s,2,  Dial(sip/677&sip/666,30,tT);
> > > > exten =>  > > > leave/retrieve>
> > > >
> > > > All very basic and works like a charm except for the talk off.
> > > > Thanks in advance to all,
> > > > John M
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Warren,
Yes.  The setup is based on what type of signaling the telco is giving you.
John
On Monday June 19 2006 10:32 am, Warren wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I do intend to get a T-1 card anyway.
> Would it be the same card for a data T-1 as for a voice T-1 just with
> different setup?
>
> W
>
> John Millican wrote:
> >Warren,
> >My suggestion for testing would be just use ethernet hand off to the
> > asterisk from the Cisco. You could bypass the Cisco but then you would
> > need a T-1 card for the asterisk box and they are not cheap.  I believe
> > there are valid arguments for both choices though and ultimately should
> > be decided by what you are planning as a final solution.
> >John M
> >
> >On Monday June 19 2006 10:15 am, Warren wrote:
> >>I have a data T-1 available to me to do some testing of a new asterisk
> >>systemthat I am putting together.  Do I just leave this T routed through
> >>my cisco router and plug in the asterisk system through a network card
> >>or do I need to get a T-1 card and use that?  I looked on the voip-info
> >>wiki and it did not seem to answer this for me.
> >>
> >>TIA,
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread John Millican
Warren,
My suggestion for testing would be just use ethernet hand off to the asterisk 
from the Cisco. You could bypass the Cisco but then you would need a T-1 card 
for the asterisk box and they are not cheap.  I believe there are valid 
arguments for both choices though and ultimately should be decided by what 
you are planning as a final solution.
John M
On Monday June 19 2006 10:15 am, Warren wrote:
> I have a data T-1 available to me to do some testing of a new asterisk
> systemthat I am putting together.  Do I just leave this T routed through
> my cisco router and plug in the asterisk system through a network card
> or do I need to get a T-1 card and use that?  I looked on the voip-info
> wiki and it did not seem to answer this for me.
>
> TIA,
> Warren
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